The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times – Alexis Wright
Emergence Magazine Podcast
The Swan Book
I could not foresee the global pandemic emergency taking place now, or how this would link all of humanity in a global tragedy and an urgent worldwide fight for our survival. I ended up writing The Swan Book, a novel that shows how Aboriginal people are tied through globalisation to the inequalities and suffering experienced by millions of others across the planet. When the swan book was published in 2013, the Australian literary critic, Georgie Williamson, described it as a curse poem. This inward migration can be described as being locked in a prison of the mine.
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