Lemons in the Chicken Wire

Lemons in the Chicken Wire
ISBN: 9781925936896
Publication Date: 1 May 2020

Winner 2015 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship - a partnership between the State Library of ;Queensland's black&write! Indigenous Writing and Editing Project and Magabala Books

From a remarkable new voice in Indigenous writing comes this highly original collection of poems bristling with ;stunning imagery and gritty textures. At times sensual, always potent, Lemons in the Chicken Wire delivers a ;collage 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 and ;seeks to challenge our imagination beyond the ordinary. Alison Whittaker demonstrates that borders, whether ;physical or imagined, are no match for our capacity for love.

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'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 linguistic-family-colour-colony lines. (Not poetic lines but the invisible lines that reside in a person or in a poem fragment.)' — ;Elena Gomez, ;Overland Literary Journal

'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

'Lemons in the Chicken Wire is truly an astounding, proudly experimental, innovative, daring, disjunctive, playful ;and unique poetry debut.' ;— Dr AJ Curruthers, Rabbit Poetry Journal