Thank you to the team at Text, most particularly Mandy Brett and WH Chong.
All errors, of course, remain my own.
This book is dedicated to the memory of:
John Cunningham, 1946–2016
Georgia Blain, 1964–2016
Peter Nicholls, 1939–2018
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Sophie Cunningham is the author of four books, Geography, Bird, Melbourne, and Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy. She is a former publisher and editor, was a co-founder of The Stella Prize and is now an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s Non/fiction Lab.
Lines from Sappho are from Josephine Balmer’s translation Poems and Fragments and are reprinted by permission of Bloodaxe Books.
Thanks to Magabala Books for permission to quote from Story about Feeling by Bill Neidjie and Keith Taylor.
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