{"product_id":"blakwork-by-alison-whittaker-9781925360851","title":"Blakwork","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWINNER - 2019 Queensland Literary Awards (Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection)\u003cbr\u003e\nWINNER - 2019 Mascara Avant-Garde Literary Award\u003cbr\u003e\nSHORTLISTED - 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Poetry)\u003cbr\u003e\nSHORTLISTED - 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (Indigenous Writing Prize)\u003cbr\u003e\nSHORTLISTED - 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\nLONGLISTED - 2019 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry. Alison Whittaker's \u003cem\u003eBlakwork\u003c\/em\u003e is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge: an incomprehensible loss, and the poet's fearless examination of the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhittaker is unsparing in the interrogation of familiar ideas, identifying and dissolving them with idiosyncratic imagery, layering them to form new connections, and reinterpreting what we know.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlison Whittaker's second book, \u003cem\u003eBlakwork\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold mix of poetry, micro-fiction, memoir, and critique, and a follow-up to her award-wining debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eLemons in the Chicken Wire\u003c\/em\u003e... Whittaker has drawn on the strength of past generations to become a strong blak woman in contemporary Australia, and readers are gifted her insights into growing up blak. With a unique style of writing, she bravely unpacks themes such as colonisation and Aboriginal rights in Australia. - Karen Wyld, \u003cem\u003eBooks+Publishing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe way Gomeroi words are always bursting through the English in \u003cem\u003eBlakwork\u003c\/em\u003e feels more like the future than the past. It's surely one of the key books in our current Aboriginal literary and linguistic renaissance. - Gregory Day, \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Books of the Year 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhittaker literally and figuratively demonstrates the subtle yet radical ways in which poetry may influence perceptions. - Autumn Royal, Overland Literary Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlakwork\u003c\/em\u003e expands horizons of possibility beyond instrumentalised domains, and, in its own brilliant ways, this book is an act of war, its sounds and shapes acting as both chthonic echoes and epistemological landmarks. - Dan Disney, \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288379474156,"sku":"9781925360851","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13933843482873.jpg?v=1770546706","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/blakwork-by-alison-whittaker-9781925360851","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}