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Well, wasn't this an overreach for me?
Not going to rate because I don't think it's fair for me to rate something in an artform I'm not familiar with, knowing it will contribute to an aggregate rating some would use as an objective measure of worth.
Literary references went over my head; even with Evelyn explaining some of them at the end, I couldn't contextualise them into a cohesive emotional response to her work.
I had a better time of it in the poems that were less dependent on Australian literature; her interior life, set against the backdrop of ongoing Australian colonial processes, First Nations injury and resistance.
In reflecting upon the collection, perhaps what I've written about literary references isn't entirely true. There's a strong current of what she describes as a literary resistance, which I found very approachable when her targets exist in the interstitium between Australian literature and popular culture.
One of the poems is titled 'Acknowledgement of C*ntery' which is flat-out great.
Not going to rate because I don't think it's fair for me to rate something in an artform I'm not familiar with, knowing it will contribute to an aggregate rating some would use as an objective measure of worth.
Literary references went over my head; even with Evelyn explaining some of them at the end, I couldn't contextualise them into a cohesive emotional response to her work.
I had a better time of it in the poems that were less dependent on Australian literature; her interior life, set against the backdrop of ongoing Australian colonial processes, First Nations injury and resistance.
In reflecting upon the collection, perhaps what I've written about literary references isn't entirely true. There's a strong current of what she describes as a literary resistance, which I found very approachable when her targets exist in the interstitium between Australian literature and popular culture.
One of the poems is titled 'Acknowledgement of C*ntery' which is flat-out great.