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Marcelle Freiman

Marcelle Freiman’s two books of poetry are White Lines (Vertical) (Hybrid Publishers) and Monkey's Wedding (Island Press Co-op). She grew up in South Africa and lived in London before migrating to Sydney in 1981. Her poetry emerges from her biography, a constantly shifting sense of place, memory and time. She is Associate Professor in creative writing and literature at Macquarie University, and has research interests in creative writing theory and practice, in poetry and postcolonial and transnational literatures.

‘Gethsemane’, on Patrick White

Gethsemane at your shoulder as you work, garden of sleep and torment, the betrayal of whispers you were born to, outside the frame, beyond the painter’s bloom and power the strikes of his marks of black and grey – both …

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Their Soles

The soles of her feet when she sits on the sand by the breakwater, watching over the white boy in his sunhat digging, building castles. The soles of her (her?) feet crossed-over, poked from beneath the blanket – she sleeps …

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Seven Ways of Mourning

1 Your name bends out of reach, the final spike shreds the skins of my remembering. 2 Engraved on stone, words tell: they came to this country they lived here, and died. 3 To show you scarlet bougainvillea in autumn …

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