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Descriptionnot in Aus, matebad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where bloodied mattresses burn 'Throat' is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes their distinctive muscles and shines a light on Australia's unreconciled past and precarious present with humour and heart. Van Neerven is unsparing in the interrogation of colonial impulse, and fiercely loyal to telling the stories that make us who we are. AwardsWinner NSW Premier's Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry 2021 Winner NSW Premier's Multicultural NSW Award 2021 Winner of the NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award 2021 Shortlisted for the VIC Premier’s Award for Poetry 2021 Author descriptionEllen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh (South East Queensland) and Dutch heritage. They write fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction. Ellen's first book, Heat and Light, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. Ellen's second book, a collection of poetry, Comfort Food, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize and highly commended for the 2016 Wesley Michel Wright Prize. Throat is Ellen's highly anticipated second poetry collection. |