Life with Birds

Author:   Bronwyn Rennex
Publisher:   Upswell Publishing
ISBN:  

9780645247978


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   31 May 2022
Format:   Paperback
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A luminous account of largely unrecognised experiences in the aftermath of war. This is not a war story about heroism or healing trauma, but an attempt to fill the gaps in a family story in the wake of the Vietnam War and re-animate a father never really known. Life with Birds invests in the small scale, the domestic and the ordinary as an overlooked part of Australian military history. Bronwyn Rennex has used whatever materials she could find in order to attempt to retrieve her father - family stories, love letters, legal documents, birds - and the gaps between these documents form perhaps the most important part of this story- a failure that describes a loss. Rather than describing her mother's grief at her father's death, Rennex uses love letters and her mother's written claim for a war widow's pension to map the shape of her mother's love and loss. Told in fragments and mixing speculation, imagination and guesswork, the narrative is personal, angry, political and also funny, balancing a desire for some form of testimony with a commitment to questioning how we talk about war. This is a poignant and compelling account of largely unrecognised experiences in the aftermath of war.

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Author:   Bronwyn Rennex
Publisher:   Upswell Publishing
Imprint:   Upswell Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.246kg
ISBN:  

9780645247978


ISBN 10:   0645247979
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   31 May 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Bronwyn Rennex is a writer, artist and arts professional. Her poems have been published in Cordite Poetry Review and her photographs have been exhibited widely and are held in private and public collections. Until 2017, she was Co-Director of Stills Gallery in Sydney.

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