Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin, Chante Timothy

Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin, Chante TimothyFrom the winner of the Windham Campbell Prize Winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature's Best Writing Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non Fiction in the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Longlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards for Non Fiction The past shapes the present they teach us that in schools and universities. (Shapes? Infiltrates, more like; imbues, infuses.) This past cannot be

One was Elizabeth Macquarie

IS your immune system

dangerous magic

and how it could be done differently

this book should be on your shelf

Told in two unforgettable voices

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Two completely different poems

questing -- reflects her life

It tells the story of the catalyst for a powerfully modern expression of an ancient indigenous way of seeing the world

remain in the balance

If you encounter the Black Wind while out there at sea