(re)Verbing the archive

A case for Blak archivalism

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  • ISBN: 978-1-923213-22-7
  • Extent: 196pp
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Nan was born in a flood of galahs. Red-­dust crested Country.
Fresh bila coat-­the-­tongue Country. No white linens, many ghosts

Country. Where girls grow, rough and malleable as clay.
She married a man whose bones only knew

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