Where politics meets psychiatry, and the problematics of real-world living meet creative potential, how do we conceptualise our psychological and existential condition?
Griffith Review 72: States of Mind investigates the parameters of our contemporary cognitive landscapes.
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'Headlights curving round the S-bends like a snake of light gliding towards some undefined prey. He blew smoke out the window, humming to himself, and the moon shone full in the belly of the night.'
Listen to poet, musician and self-proclaimed mischief-maker Loki Liddle read aloud 'Snake of Light', his short story that features in our current edition, States of Mind.
'Now, above the once-multicoloured land from which it rises, the watergaw can seem the broken shaft of a cultural and metaphysical message, a dray or chariot ascending but stalled mid-sky, and thereby implying not only the fall but a definitively tragic landing on hard, hoof-compacted, colour-leached, colonial ground.'
Listen to award-winning author Gregory Day read aloud 'The watergaw', the essay that won him The Nature Conservancy Australia's 2021 Nature Writing Prize.
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