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'The wildlife officer moves into the woodland,
steps between the crooked carpet of winged
limbs; the stiff cloaks swathing brown bodies.
He looks out at the row upon row of flying
foxes, lifeless or starved to motionlessness;
each reduced to lay at the level of a human heel.'
'The inheritors are those who will suffer the ravages of climate change be they human, creature or plant.'
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Compelling Visions of the Future
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 December 2021; (p. 30)
— Review of The Inheritors 2021 selected work poetry ; Take Care 2021 selected work poetry -
Jane Gibian : Beneath the Treeline; Amanda Anastasi : The Inheritors
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 16 2021;
— Review of Beneath the Tree Line 2021 selected work poetry ; The Inheritors 2021 selected work poetry'The author’s note which accompanies Jane Gibian’s Beneath the Tree Line begins by saying, “More and more I have become preoccupied with the natural world and our place in its increasingly precarious situation”. This together with the emphasis on those who will be stuck with our mess in Amanda Anastasi’s The Inheritors inevitably suggested their connection and a chance to round out, as it were, the emphases behind the books reviewed in my previous two posts. In fact, both books have more in them than an obsession with the cumulative toxic effects of the Anthropocene, Jane Gibian’s book, especially. Its five parts comprise five different perspectives on living which could be summarised, very crudely, as: living in the world, in language, in the digital age, the act of living in itself and living in the natural world.' (Introduction)
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Jane Gibian : Beneath the Treeline; Amanda Anastasi : The Inheritors
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , no. 16 2021;
— Review of Beneath the Tree Line 2021 selected work poetry ; The Inheritors 2021 selected work poetry'The author’s note which accompanies Jane Gibian’s Beneath the Tree Line begins by saying, “More and more I have become preoccupied with the natural world and our place in its increasingly precarious situation”. This together with the emphasis on those who will be stuck with our mess in Amanda Anastasi’s The Inheritors inevitably suggested their connection and a chance to round out, as it were, the emphases behind the books reviewed in my previous two posts. In fact, both books have more in them than an obsession with the cumulative toxic effects of the Anthropocene, Jane Gibian’s book, especially. Its five parts comprise five different perspectives on living which could be summarised, very crudely, as: living in the world, in language, in the digital age, the act of living in itself and living in the natural world.' (Introduction)
-
Compelling Visions of the Future
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 December 2021; (p. 30)
— Review of The Inheritors 2021 selected work poetry ; Take Care 2021 selected work poetry
