Blakwork

Alison Whittaker
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WINNER - 2019 Queensland Literary Awards (Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection)
WINNER - 2019 Mascara Avant-Garde Literary Award
SHORTLISTED - 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Poetry)
SHORTLISTED - 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (Indigenous Writing Prize)
SHORTLISTED - 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year
LONGLISTED - 2019 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal

A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry.

Alison Whittaker’s BLAKWORK is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet’s fearless examination of the present. Whittaker is unsparing in the interrogation of familiar ideas — identifying and dissolving them with idiosyncratic imagery, layering them to form new connections, and reinterpreting what we know.

ISBN: 9781925360851 | Published: 1 September 2018 | Paperback | 188 pages
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