{"product_id":"lemons-in-the-chicken-wire-by-alison-whittaker-9781925936896","title":"Lemons in the Chicken Wire","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2015 black\u0026amp;write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship: a partnership between the State Library of Queensland's black\u0026amp;write! Indigenous Writing and Editing Project and Magabala Books.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom a remarkable new voice in Indigenous writing comes this highly original collection of poems bristling with stunning imagery and gritty textures. At times sensual, always potent, \u003ci\u003eLemons in the Chicken Wire\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a collage of work that reflects rural identity through a rich medley of techniques and forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is an audacious, lyrical, and linguistically lemon-flavoured poetry debut that possesses a rare edginess and seeks to challenge our imagination beyond the ordinary. Alison Whittaker demonstrates that borders, whether physical or imagined, are no match for our capacity for love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTeachers' notes available here.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Whittaker's poems play with vernaculars in a way that renders her poems—in combination with unexpected and fun internal rhythms and rhymes—a wonderful intervention into poetry that bends linguistic family colour colony lines. (Not poetic lines but the invisible lines that reside in a person or in a poem fragment.)' - Elena Gomez, \u003ci\u003eOverland Literary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The newly published author lays her personal experience bare, breaking down many of the barriers that often shield the community's visibility.' - Bianca Soldani, SBS NITV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLemons in the Chicken Wire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is truly an astounding, proudly experimental, innovative, daring, disjunctive, playful, and unique poetry debut.' - Dr AJ Carruthers, \u003ci\u003eRabbit Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340892750060,"sku":"9781925936896","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19694293482873.jpg?v=1772175255","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/lemons-in-the-chicken-wire-by-alison-whittaker-9781925936896","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}