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These lyric essays push the boundaries of nonfiction beyond the biographical or the academic, with pieces that experiment with form and embark on carefully crafting and re-crafting interventions that both challenge and expand existing genre structures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShapeshifting\u003c\/em\u003e brings to the fore a whole new genre waiting to take shape, to be formed, informed and re-formed by First Nations Australian writers. 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Jeanine Leane's poems are richly palpable in texture, imagery and language, layering the personal with the political, along with a sharp-tongued telling of history. Cleverly divided into three parts, 'Gathering', 'Nation' and 'Returning', Gawimarra weaves back and forth in a dedication to strong matriarchs, and the core acts of gathering and returning - memory, language, history - resonate powerfully throughout. This remarkable book is the result of decades of poetic, political, and cultural work and reflection.","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288466768108,"sku":"9780702266324","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/307223482438.jpg?v=1770555695"},{"product_id":"walk-back-over-by-jeanine-leane-9780648056850","title":"Walk Back Over","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWalk Back Over\u003c\/i\u003e, Wiradjuri woman—read: poet, academic, historian, teacher—Jeanine Leane takes off our wallpaper to reveal the personal and political layers of a nuanced history. With Leane, we walk back over history pages, walk back over the night and find what was always there, trip over the wires of dissent and denial. 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