Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc.In July this year, Geordie Williamson, Chief Literary Critic of The Australian, wrote of the crisis facing the development of an Australian National Literature exacerbated by government funding cuts to the arts, ‘the defunding of literary magazines that incubate literary talent, [and] the likely dismantling of our local publishing industry through the scrapping of parallel importation laws’.
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FAW NSW Biennial Awards
Breathe
by Penny Lane
Breathe: inhale the breaths of eagles,
the breaths of emus, echidnas, kites
in saltbush, spinifex, airy country,
of gangurru, kanguru, kangaroo;
Inhale forty, fifty, sixty thousand years of human breaths
that tussle with scrub and gum and wattle;
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I very much enjoyed reading the entries for this year’s Jean Stone Award. The following poems were short-listed:
# 8 ‘Breathe’
#10 ‘Scattering’
#64 ‘House sitting’
#11 ‘Horse-power’
Of these #8 ‘Breathe’ was chosen as the winner of the Award.
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