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Launch Announcement For In The Hollow Of The Land, 2 Vols., Glen R E Phillips Professor
Launch Announcement For In The Hollow Of The Land, 2 Vols., Glen R E Phillips Professor
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
Announcing the launch of Glen Phillip's Collected Poetry, 1968-2018
Review Of Taboo, By Kim Scott, Picador-Australia, 2017, Rashida Murphy
Review Of Taboo, By Kim Scott, Picador-Australia, 2017, Rashida Murphy
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
Kim Scott's Taboo is a story about beginnings and endings.This novel reminds the reader of the circularity of stories, and how those stories are shaped by intent and weighed by landscape. Scott speaks of dispossession, abuse, colonialism, addiction and racism in lyrical and melancholy prose. The men and women who walk through these pages are startlingly aware of their failings and equally forgiving of those failings in others. There are no quick fixes and the story vacillates between despair and hope. Yet this is not a grim story. The lucidity of its prose lifts it beyond the despair in its …