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Tag: Pulitzer

Review: The Tradition by Jericho Brown

The tradition is violation: of the land, of women, and especially black men’s bodies.

Contemporary, Poetry, Pulitzer, queer, US

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It seems crazy that a year-and-a-half ago some of us in Melbourne were wearing masks, not because of disease, but because of smoke from the Black Summer fires.

I read about this 1955 novel on the Goldsmiths ‘Fantasy Prize’ ie novels published before the prize existed but could have won it. The moment I read it was a ‘garden novel’ I was sold.

I grew up in northern Tasmania where the stories in this collection by pakana writer Adam Thompson are set, so many of the places are familiar to me. But to read them is to get a feel for the history “smoothed over”, as one character says, by colonisation and genocide.

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