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Posted on 19th September 202119th September 2021

The Dark Turn: History and Performance…

Ross Female Factory (photo copyright Daniela Brozek)

A few years ago I was asked to write some plays concerning women who had been incarcerated at one of Van Diemen Land’s places of convict confinement – the Ross Female Factory. Between 1848 and 1854 the Factory had been developed for use with convict women, as a workhouse, staging post for accommodation between assignments …

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Posted on 9th November 201921st January 2020

Poetic Island – reflective writing on Oliné Keese’s The Broad Arrow, Robert S. Close’s Eliza Callahan and Rachel Leary’s Bridget Crack.

An essay on Oliné Keese’s The Broad Arrow, Robert S. Close’s Eliza Callahan and Rachel Leary’s Bridget Crack, reflecting on poetic language in Tasmanian writing and the sensory and emotional languages we use to communicate with and about the world.

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