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Claire Albrecht

Claire Albrecht is a Newcastle-based poet. She was the 2019 Emerging Writers Festival fellow at the State Library of Victoria, a 2020 Varuna ‘Writing Fire, Writing Drought’ fellow, and will be a resident at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico in 2021. Her debut chapbook 'pinky swear' was published in 2018, and she runs Cuplet Poetry Night.

Claire Albrecht Reviews Jennifer Mackenzie’s Navigable Ink

The blurb of Jennifer Mackenzie’s 2020 collection Navigable Ink (Transit Lounge) begins by introducing Indonesian writer and activist Pramoedya Ananta Toer, who died in 2006.

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‘Mix it with grit’: Claire Albrecht Interviews Jill Jones

Adelaide poet Jill Jones sits down 1,525.5 km from me, Claire Albrecht in Newcastle, to discuss her sparkling twelfth book A History of What I’ll Become.

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fear and other feelings

the wasp will just not fucking give up floats along our old back wall like a drone patrolling we have cut off her access with duct tape a mud house inside she brings caterpillars to feed her young grasping wriggling …

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Claire Albrecht Reviews Manisha Anjali’s Sugar Kane Woman

Towards the end of the nineteenth century and after the turn of the twentieth, colonial British rule brought indentured Indian workers to the fertile shores of Fiji. The colonisers hoped to boost the local sugar cane industry without antagonising local Fijians, and so boats filled with indentured labourers from all over India were trafficked to the island for a life of servitude and abuse.

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a peregrine falcon

hovers this grand wings attempt contextually almighty of one free I see from his I am he for a pockets and thermal at the insistence of and touch the only true my flight feathers, feel eons and eons and eons …

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