Barbara Temperton



Panda Wong Reviews Autumn Royal and Barbara Temperton

Like reverse-engineering a sausage, articulating grief is an impossible task. Autumn Royal’s debut poetry collection The Drama Student (2023) resists this urge for clarity. Instead, she writes towards grief’s inability to be expressed or written, how language scrapes against grief’s edges, a continuation of her practice’s focus on elegy and mourning traditions.

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Notes from Narrogin and the Great Southern

I’ve led a spoiled existence over the past few decades when it comes to living in communities with thriving programs of literary activities and writers’ festivals: firstly Perth, then Albany and Geraldton. My move last year to Narrogin has found me in much quieter environs. I’m enjoying exploring my new neighbourhood. After decades living on the coast, the landscape of the wheatbelt is slowly working its way into my poems.

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