“Run for a Safe Climate”
The Sunday Age, 26 July 2009
The Fire Fighters
Are ready
For the Long RunFrom the wet tropics and the Great Barrier Reef
To the Australian Alps, Murray-Darling
Basin, and river red gumsPast natural icons under threat
Together they tended the deadThey don't want families to go through that!
In a life-or-death race against time, they can't afford
To sit on their hands, they were searching for survivors
In the ash and the grey … fifteen kilometres a day,
Six thousand kilometres in the relay,The fires they were fighting were unstoppable.
Run, run! For a safe climate!
(After Jas H Duke's No, no! You can't do that!)
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31.0: EPIC
Poetry Editor Ali AlizadehReleased 1 December 2009
Index of Poems
Cover image: Eddy Burger
Our thirty-first issue was suitably gigantic, with poetry editor Ali Alizadeh selecting a wide range of epic works. Read his editorial, then check out the craziness of the sequel, POST-EPIC.
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