{"product_id":"lemons-in-the-chicken-wire","title":"Lemons in the Chicken Wire","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner 2015 black\u0026amp;write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship  a partnership between the State Library ofQueensland's black\u0026amp;write! Indigenous Writing and Editing Project and Magabala Books\u003c\/b\u003eFrom a remarkable new voice in Indigenous writing comes this highly original collection of poems bristling withstunning imagery and gritty textures. At times sensual, always potent, \u003ci\u003eLemons in the Chicken Wire\u003c\/i\u003e delivers acollage of work that reflects rural identity through a rich medley of techniques and forms.It is an audacious, lyrical and linguistically lemon flavoured poetry debut that possesses a rare edginess andseeks to challenge our imagination beyond the ordinary. Alison Whittaker demonstrates that borders, whetherphysical or imagined, are no match for our capacity for love.\u003cb\u003eTeachers notes available here.\u003c\/b\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 linguisticfamilycolourcolony 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'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\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLemons in the Chicken Wire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is truly an astounding, proudly experimental, innovative, daring, disjunctive, playfuland unique poetry debut.'- Dr AJ Curruthers,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Rabbit Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"NewSouth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45372753871086,"sku":"9781925936896","price":21.72,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781925936896.jpg?v=1717234997","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/lemons-in-the-chicken-wire","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}