This poem explores the impossibility of escaping a kind of colonial kitsch addressing catastrophe and loss as a white 'settler' Australian. Kitsch is the inevitable fall-out when the enormity of colonial crimes against First Nations Peoples and environmental depredation remain unappeased.
History
Pagination
30-34
ISSN
2200-9868
Language
eng
Research statement
This poem explores the impossibility of escaping a kind of colonial kitsch addressing catastrophe and loss as a white 'settler' Australian. Kitsch is the inevitable fall-out when the enormity of colonial crimes against First Nations Peoples and environmental depredation remain unappeased.