Throat
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Publisher Description
I am not aware of my power
you watch me build my weapon
Throat is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes their muscles and shines a light on Australia's unreconciled past and precarious present with humour and heart. Unsparing in its interrogation of colonial impulse, this book is fiercely loyal to voicing our truth and telling the stories that make us who we are.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In their second poetry collection, Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven brings forth a gripping collection of poems about connection—to Country and culture—and power, in art, politics and violence. Van Neerven lays bare their human experiences, from little unsent text messages, to sex with an older woman, to discerning that it’s guilt that “makes people interesting”. Intense yet witty, the voice of these poems is distinct and deeply resonant, particularly when narrated rather than read. Van Neerven excels at challenging the politics of the day in a country built upon a broken colony (“call it invasion not settlement”) and is both shrewd and mournful about the history that has been lost.
