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- Title
Gabriela Bourke reviews Archival Poetics by Natalie Harkin.
- Authors
BOURKE, GABRIELA
- Abstract
Archival Poeticsby Natalie HarkinVagabondISBN 9781925735215 It can be tempting to imagine that colonisation is a thing of the past; thatposting an infographic on Instagram on Sorry Day counts as activism; that thehorrors white settlers inflicted on First Nations peoples can be considered inthe past tense. The narrator's attempt to reconfigure the shadowy spacesof this country's history are held up at every turn by the state and its' dystopian-drive toinstitutionalise/assimilate/control/categorise/collect/contain Aboriginallives'. Theidea of writing poetry as a kind of restful activity is prevalent in a societythat doesn't particularly value creative endeavour, but Harkin tears this notionto shreds throughout her collection and certainly in this poem.
- Subjects
POETICS; FIRST Nations of Canada; INDIGENOUS peoples; INDIGENOUS children; CHILD care; DETENTION of persons
- Publication
Mascara Literary Review, 2019, Issue 24, p20
- ISSN
1835-4017
- Publication type
Book Review