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Clarity in verse

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May 1985, no. 70

Outbreak of Peace by Wendy Poussard

Billabong Press, $3.95 pb, 44 pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

At the Institute for Total Recall by Michael Sariban

Queensland Community press, $15, $8 pb, 62 pp

The One True History by Andrew McDonald

Hale & Iremonger, $15.95, $7.95 pb, 96 pp

Clarity in verse

by
May 1985, no. 70

Poussard’s Outbreak of Peace (Billabong Press, $3.95 pb, 44 pp) is a personal record of the women’s action at Pine Gap in November 1983. It is difficult to say precisely how Poussard achieves the fine balance of political and personal commentary that she does, but her introduction provides a clue. ‘Australians are an urban, shore-hugging people,’ she writes, ‘but in the middle of our urban, shore-hugging consciousness there is a space, a desert. For a people with few myths, the openness and vastness of the Centre holds a hint of liberation.’

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