Dirty Words

Name: Dirty Words
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780994259639
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By Natalie Harkin

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Dirty Words by Natalie Harkin is a compelling collection that blends poetry, literary nonfiction, and Native Australian studies. The work is described as a 'sing-chant-rage' that liberates language, offering a powerful and evocative expression of Indigenous Australian voices. Through this dynamic interplay of words and emotion, Harkin shakes off the shackles of oppression, crafting letters of power that resonate deeply.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book will appeal to readers interested in Indigenous Australian culture, contemporary poetry, and literary nonfiction that challenges and expands the boundaries of language and identity.

'If language is a virus, Dirty Words is an inoculation, the alphabet jabbed by a 'sing-chant-rage' that liberates the breath and restores the heart. Natalie Harkin joins the great chain of voices that rise and stir and sing, shaking their shackles to the earth like blood that blooms letters of power.' Peter Minter

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Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Native Australian Studies.

If language is a virus, Dirty Words is an inoculation, the alphabet jabbed by a 'sing-chant-rage' that liberates the breath and restores the heart. Natalie Harkin joins the great chain of Indigenous Australian voices that rise and stir and sing, shaking their shackles to the earth like blood that blooms letters of power.

— Peter Minter

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780994259639

Publisher: Cordite Publishing Inc.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2015

Country: Australia

Imprint: Cordite Publishing Inc.

Contributors:

Introduction by Peter Minter

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 142g

Pages: 48

Collections

Arts & Culture Natalie Harkin Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Natalie Harkin is a Narungga writer from South Australia. Her PhD focussed an archival-poetic response to her family's Aboriginal records, informed by blood memory and haunting. She is a member of the First Nations Australia Writers Network, and was recently invited to conduct a poetics master class at the Ottawa International Writers Festival. She is part of the Unbound collective with her colleagues at Yunggorendi, Flinders University, a group of Aboriginal women academics, experimental writers and artists creatively interrogating South Australia's archives and colonial history. Her words have been exhibited in text- object-video projections, wallpapering, paste-ups, words on glass and linen, and with other related objects including a basket woven from her nanna and great-grandmother's letters found in the State Aboriginal archives. DIRTY WORDS (Cordite Books, 2015) is her first poetry collection.