K.A Ren Wyld Serve the tea Blak
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Southerly is proud to announce the launch of the inaugural Southerly Essay, written by K.A Ren Wyld, entitled “Serve the tea Blak”. This essay is a conversation with, and an extended reflection on the award-winning work, Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea by Natalie Harkin (Wakefield Press, 2025). K.A Ren Wyld reflects on Natalie Harkins’ book, its representation of the history of Aboriginal women’s domestic labour and servitude, and its use of archival research to speak back to the colony and to power, through literature. As part of Southerly‘s ongoing revival, we will publish on our website a series of essays, each focused on…
Aboriginal writing is different. Not in any innate primitivist sense, it’s just doing different things, following different rules and patterns of relation. It doesn’t follow the straight lines that wittingly or otherwise I’ve learnt, been inculcated into – from inculcāre to tread in with the heel, knowledge as wound.
Please come to the Spirit Festival launch of Southerly 71.2 A Hand of Sand, with local writers and readers from the Nunga community. There will be some refreshments provided, and the issue will be sold at the special launch price of $25. Where: The Spirit Festival, Mullawirraburka Park (Rymill Park), Rundle Street When: 11:30am, Sunday February 26th 2012 Website: www.thespiritfestival.com