Walking Upside-down Country

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  • Published 20260505
  • ISBN: 978-1-923213-19-7
  • Extent: 196pp
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life, habitat & ruin / run recombinant // & helical in hurt forms / that keep

life going & do / not heal – ‘Clear Water Renga’, Brian Teare

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