Crankhandle Indigenous Australian literature all in stages of sorrow

all in stages of sorrow

We had a black-and-white hand-me-down until mum won a colour television in a pub raffle

the kind that filters the land through a lens of pink

One way to perceive relations is to study them intently and to construct a poetics in their shadow

I’d pour dregs from wine bottles into saucers for the fairies – white wine for the good ones

Crankhandle Indigenous Australian literature all in stages of sorrowRead Michael Farrell's introduction to Crankhandle. ISBN: 9780994259608 Crankhandle is the latest part of an ongoing Notebooks series, the first part of which was published as Sidetracks: Notebooks 19761991 (Auckland University Press 1998). Between Sidetracks and Crankhandle comes a longer unpublished section, Melbourne Journal: Notebooks 19982003, begun when I first came to Australia. From the beginning, these writings were never seen as notes or