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WRITING BACKWARDS: Susan Hawthorne’s Dark Matters

Review by Lucy Alexander Edited by Robyn Cadwallader What if it was you who were woken by the crash of your door falling in the early hours of morning? Just …

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Dark MattersLucy AlexanderSusan Hawthorne

Inside my head
(Susan Hawthorne)

for my father Inside my head are patterns a quilt of paddocks seen from the cockpit of the Tiger Moth the coastline is drawn in waves, crumpled like silk maps …

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Susan Hawthorne

Taut and Quivering Narrative Traction: Susan Hawthorne’s Limen

Review by Lucy Alexander Limen is the notion of barely perceptible difference, where the senses can barely detect that there is sound, for example, or that the river has edged …

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LImenLucy AlexanderSusan Hawthorne

The Playful Provocation of a Complex Tapestry: Susan Hawthorne’s Cow

Review by Robyn Cadwallader The cover of Susan Hawthorne’s Cow, both back and front, is an Indian-style patchwork featuring cows in paintings, photos, carvings, bas relief, even street signs (‘Beware …

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CowRobyn CadwalladerSusan Hawthorne

The playful provocation of a complex tapestry (Robyn Cadwallader)

The cover of Susan Hawthorne’s Cow, both back and front, is an Indian-style patchwork featuring cows in paintings, photos, carvings, bas relief, even street signs (‘Beware of Cattle on Road’), …

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Robyn CadwalladerSusan Hawthorne

Hard Notes of War: Susan Hawthorne's Valence

Review by Lesley Lebkowicz War has always been a subject for poetry – for all forms of literature – in every culture, in every time. It’s been examined, glorified, abhorred. …

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Lesley LebkowiczSusan HawthorneValence

HARD NOTES OF WAR: a review of Valence by Susan Hawthorne (Lesley Lebkowicz)

War has always been a subject for poetry – for all forms of literature – in every culture, in every time. It’s been examined, glorified, abhorred. Rarely does a writer …

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Susan HawthorneValence

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