HISTORY OF SADNESS: LOUISE CARTER

This timely poem has ‘smoke choked’ assonance, it is domestic and feminine and the everyday. It bursts with resonances of the rising spirit and our shared grief in 2020. A poem of exhaustion, of trauma upon trauma, communal and personal. The devastation of bushfires, habitats and private griefs are set out in quiet, matter-a-fact couplets, interwoven with a dazed tone of desperation and despair.

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Louise Carter is a Sydney-based poet. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Poems (2012 & 2015), Cordite Poetry Review, Meanjin, Westerly, Other Terrain Journal, and Seizure. She is a member of the Writing & Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University.


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