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    First Refuge: Poems on social justice
    First Refuge: Poems on social justice
    First Refuge: Poems on social justice
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    First Refuge is a collection of poems marking the twentieth birthday of Ginninderra Press as an independent Australian publisher. In 2006, to celebrate Ginninderra Press’s tenth birthday, fifty poems were selected by Michael Byrne and published in the collection entitled On Common Water. As well as more recent voices

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateMay 17, 2016
    ISBN9781760411428
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      First Refuge - Ann Nadge

      First Refuge

      First Refuge

      Poems on social justice

      Ann Nadge

      Ginninderra Press

      Contents

      Copyright

      Introduction

      First Refuge

      Afterword

      First Refuge: Poems on social justice

      ISBN 978 1 76041 142 8

      Copyright © individual contributors 2016

      Cover image: Fold by Luke Elwes (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2016 by

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015 Australia

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      Introduction

      Country of first asylum, or first refuge, is usually a neighbouring country to which a refugee flees.

      In the face of great challenge, even reported challenge, writing often becomes the place of first refuge for poets as they seek to make sense of experience and to express their interpretation and reaction. Rilke expresses it in this way:

      Everything conspires to silence us,

      partly with shame

      partly with unspeakable hope.

      From the silence and first refuge, emerge art, music, poetry and enduring story. In community, these have the power to lead us from isolation to a place where we can wrestle with words and, in time, enlarge our perspectives on life itself. It is enough, even, to tolerate silence, mystery and uncertainty and to know the limits of words.

      In preparation for Ginninderra Press’s twentieth anniversary, poets from around Australia were invited to submit poems on the theme of Social Justice. Beyond the notion of GP’s anniversary, Stephen Matthews was keen to capture and create a record of the social justice issues that, at this time in history, bring shame and hope to Ginninderra Press poets nationwide.

      Some of the poems in this collection have been published previously and others were written during the four-months submission period. We are aware that many poets saw the submission process as a challenge in responding to world news as it unfolded during this time. Seamus Heaney reflected on the process of being in this state of first refuge:

      Now, to pry into roots. I rhyme to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

      The reader will thus experience work from poets whose first refuge was brief; for others, the issue has been of deep concern for years or even decades and the process has prompted them to write.

      Rather than organise the book into sections, the decision was made to lead the reader through a range of social justice issues in the way that we become exposed to them – that is, randomly and usually without warning. From the first refuge of the poets’ writing processes have emerged poems on Indigenous issues, refugees, domestic violence, homelessness, poverty, the environment, child protection, political oppression, war and discrimination on grounds of race, mental health, disability and sexuality.

      Often the poems prompt us to consider what is within our power to change. Auden reminds us,

      Poetry makes nothing happen

      What poetry makes visible is what changes the world

      By grappling through the first refuge of writing, poets make things visible to themselves as new perspectives emerge and they often become aware of what Rowan Williams refers to as their ‘undefendedness’ or vulnerability. In a sermon on poetry and prophecy, on Shakespeare Sunday, 23 April 2006, Williams spoke of

      the acceptance of the wound, the resolve to live with one’s own un-defendedness so that certain things in the human world are never forgotten or reduced.

      The most powerful of the poems in this collection recognise and express an awareness that social justice is not about ‘them’, or ‘us’ but ‘me’. They are about

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