A Poem
Book — Poetry Collection — Indonesia through Their Eyes
While interrogating the tragedy of colonialism and the often fraught nature of exploration and discovery, The Wallace Line: A Poem honours co-existence, a world of merging borders, where the oud can resonate along with the bird of paradise, the blue pigment in a Titian painting with the sound of a Javanese gamelan in moonlight. In celebrating trajectory as artefact the poem is both a call for beauty, and a plea for compassion, in a divided world.
Author Jennifer Mackenzie
Format Pocket Book, English
Page(s) 80
ISBN/ISBN13 /9781923023023444
Published Date Sep 01, 2025
Publisher Transit Lounge
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Format Pocket Book, English
Page(s) 80
ISBN/ISBN13 /9781923023023444
Published Date Sep 01, 2025
Publisher Transit Lounge
View on Goodreads | Google Books
Click here for more info!
Audiences Writing Indonesia
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These are skilled and complex poems; they work for their depth of field, for the fact that what we are invited to hear is three things at once: the naturalist’s love for his object of study, the blindness or ignorance lurking in that love, and the poet’s own identification with this double condition.
— Grace Roodenrys in Strange Distances (Meanjin, Jan 22, 2026)
— Grace Roodenrys in Strange Distances (Meanjin, Jan 22, 2026)
