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Bird
Susan Hawthorne
'Birds don't fly with leads,' I said.
'Safety belts are to learn with, not to live with - I'm safer on the trapeze than crossing the road. And I do that every day, often by myself.'
So says thirteen-year-old Avis when confronted by the limitations imposed on her at school. She has epilepsy and some of the teachers want to stop her participating in the sport she loves most. Susan Hawthorne...
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Body In Time / Nervous Arcs
Diane Fahey & Jordie Albiston
Two poets known for delving into history and myth turn their attention to inner spaces, to time and the body's arcs. Jordie Albiston voices the unspoken languages of the body unearthing the complexity of memory, of desire and the art of the corporeal. Diane Fahey revisits the travelling body as it inhales memories of architecture and landscape. Scouring the body and the land for mines of...
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Exploitation of a Desire: Women's Experiences with In Vitro Fertilisation
Renate Klein
OUT OF PRINT Being accepted on the [IVF] programme raised wild hopes without any realistic information to back them up. Looking back I cannot say why I did not see through it. IVF: the miracle technology, or an experimental procedure that violates women? In this exploratory study Renate Klein asks important questions of women who have been on the IVF programmes: Do women contemplating IVF...
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Heroines: A Contemporary Anthology Of Australian Women Writers
Dale Spender (ed.)
Twenty-two writers of fiction, poetry, essays, journalism, television, film and drama reflect upon their heroines. There are ordinary women; mothers, detectives. Old women, teenagers, sisters, lesbians, women rural and urban; women who kill and women who resist violence; women from the past and from the present; there is comedy and music, satire and calls for action; a story that takes us back...
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Imago
Francesca Rendle-Short
ACT Book of the Year Award, 1997
imago
1. the final and fully developed stage of an insect after all metamorphoses e.g. a butterfly or beetle.
2. Psychoanal. an idealised concept of a loved one formed in childhood and retained uncorrected in adult life.
Molly Rose Moon dreamt of worms the night before she married Jimmy Brown in Tooting Bec.
Milky sticky wet worms wriggled and fed...
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before breath is non-existence
Cyclonic storms inform the still eye of Earth's Breath. It's an... |
