{"title":"Kim Mahood","description":"\u003cp\u003eKim Mahood is an acclaimed Australian author renowned for her eloquent explorations of landscape, memory, and identity. Her work intricately weaves together personal narrative and cultural reflection, offering readers a profound insight into the intricate connections between people and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePosition Doubtful: Mapping Landscapes and Memories\u003c\/em\u003e, Mahood embarks on a compelling journey through the vast Australian outback. The book is a profound memoir that explores her experiences with the land and its indigenous heritage, presenting a nuanced perspective on the intersections of past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer other notable work, \u003cem\u003eWandering with Intent\u003c\/em\u003e, further cements her reputation as a storyteller at the crossroads of biography and nature writing. This book invites readers to join Mahood on her contemplative wanderings, painting vivid pictures of the landscapes that shape her and those with whom she shares them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKim Mahood’s books are a treasure trove for anyone interested in the complexities of the Australian environment and the powerful narratives that can emerge from deeply personal connections to the land.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wandering-with-intent-by-kim-mahood-9781925713251","title":"Wandering with Intent","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt - and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Australia where she is engaged in long-established collaborations of mapping, storytelling, and placemaking. Celebrated as one of the few Australian writers who both lives within and can articulate the complexities and tensions that arise in the spaces between Aboriginal and settler Australia, Mahood writes passionately and eloquently about the things that capture her senses and demand her attention - art, country, people, and writing. Her lyrical evocation of desert landscapes and tender, wry observations of cross-cultural relationships describe people, places, and ways of living that are familiar to her but still strange to most non-Indigenous Australians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt once a testament to personal freedom and a powerful argument for Indigenous self-determination, \u003cem\u003eWandering with Intent\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates, with candour, humour, and hope, how necessary and precious it is for each of us to choose how to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWandering with Intent\u003c\/em\u003e rises beacon-like from turbulent ground. Characterised by rare grace and care, and often unfurling into beauty, Mahood's essays are essential - anyone driven to understand how the faultlines between black and white Australia might shape us for the better should read this book immediately.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e-Quentin Sprague, author of The Stranger Artist, winner of the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays, some previously published, on the enigma of cross-cultural consciousness is a master class on unravelling complex issues in fluently lucid prose ... The compassionate intelligence of these essays underpins literature's redemptive arc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e-Ian McFarlane, The Canberra Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo one writes about walking the swaying tightrope between remote First Nations and non-Indigenous worlds better than Mahood ... she has little time for apologetic hair-tearing, finding meaning in enduring personal relationships and environmental connection, deep respect for Country and suspicion of those outsiders, black and white, who claim to know what is best for community people. Every big-hearted city-dweller planning to visit or work in a remote community should be required to read Mahood. She is provocative and profound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e-Michael Winkler, The Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46342862143724,"sku":"9781925713251","price":36.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/17457843482873.jpg?v=1743948861"},{"product_id":"position-doubtful-mapping-landscapes-and-memories-by-kim-mahood-9781925321685","title":"Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how carefully, something tears and a line that is neither latitude nor longitude opens in the hidden geography of the place you are about to enter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince the publication of her prize-winning memoir \u003cem\u003eCraft for a Dry Lake\u003c\/em\u003e in 2000, writer and artist Kim Mahood has been returning to the Tanami desert country in far north-western Australia where, as a child, she lived with her family on a remote cattle station. The land is timeless, but much has changed—the station has been handed back to its traditional owners; the mining companies have arrived; and Aboriginal art has flourished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComedy and tragedy, familiarity and uncertainty are Mahood's constant companions as she immerses herself in the life of a small community and in groundbreaking mapping projects. What emerges in \u003cem\u003ePosition Doubtful\u003c\/em\u003e is a revelation of the significance of the land to its people—and of the burden of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMahood is an artist of astonishing versatility. She works with words, with paint, with installations, and with performance art. Her writing about her own work and collaborations, and about the work of the desert artists, is profoundly enlightening, making palpable the link between artist and country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a beautiful and intense exploration of friendships, landscape, and homecoming. Written with great energy and humour, \u003cem\u003ePosition Doubtful\u003c\/em\u003e offers a unique portrait of the complexities of black and white relations in contemporary Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePosition Doubtful\u003c\/em\u003e is entrancing and different; it is poetic, gritty, confronting, and inspiring all at once, and offers a rare and valuable window onto Aboriginal Australia. - Tom Griffiths, Australian Book Review 'Best Books of 2016'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMahood is a writer of country. Her chapters unfurl like the ribbons of red dune ... The rich pulse of country makes the heart quake with recognition. \u003cem\u003ePosition Doubtful\u003c\/em\u003e has the scale and delicacy of desert and records genuine Aboriginal voice and emotion. - Bruce Pascoe, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eDark Emu, Fog a Dox\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eConvincing Ground\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMy book of the year ... If anyone's written more beautifully and modestly about this country and its people I'm not aware of it. I think it's a treasure. - Tim Winton, The Age 'Best Books of 2016'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46377061548268,"sku":"9781925321685","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13542183482873.jpg?v=1744831668"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/kim-mahood.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}