Cover art for The Sky Runs Right Through Us
Published
Uwa Publishing, February 2018
ISBN
9781742589596
Format
Softcover, 100 pages
Dimensions
21cm × 14cm

The Sky Runs Right Through Us

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Winner of the WA Premier's Book Award for Premier's Prize for Emerging Writer

'This deeply personal book is also an important historical record. Written from the heart and covering a period of time working on Christmas Island with asylum seekers until her return to Australia with an urgency to bear witness, Pettitt-Schipp's steady eye is levelled at a faade of Australian inclusivity and openness "this land's edge /has always been an invitation/a white-toothed smile/ to walk on". To those denied entry, those white teeth become menace, exclusion, shark, crocodile. In a book filled with heart-breakingly tender portraits, borders and bodies, sanctions and sanctuary are held close to each other in ways which articulate the space but also, the common ground between "us".' Amanda Joy

'These beautiful Christmas Island poems capture both the despair of asylum seekers imprisoned by rock and sea and their ancient will to continue.' Gillian Triggs

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