The Open Indigenous Australian literature –Natalie Harkin

–Natalie Harkin

I saw her diving

Trying to tell these stories meaningfully in a book has been hard

What I felt was bone-dry and primal

the å its overring

The Open Indigenous Australian literature –Natalie HarkinRead Merlinda Bobis's introduction to The Open. ISBN: 9780648917601 Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program. The old hill near where I grew up was outwardly ruined: its pines were dead, its vines gone to seed and its sheds, which once held some purpose, sunk and rusted. With my immature logic I considered this place open and powerful, even though the land was enclosed by a wire fence and fallow from overcultivation and neglect. Like