Indigo Perry & David McCooey – New Work in Meanjin

Congrats to David McCooey and Indigo Perry, who both have creative work in the latest edition of Meanjin (Autumn 2019).

Indigo’s contribution, a memoir piece entitled “Mallee Triptych”, is comprised of three fragments: “Myxomatosis”, “Aviary”, and “The Killer”. The piece explores closely observed stories of the plights of several different animals to express a larger story of the brutality and harshness of some aspects of experience in Victoria’s Mallee region in the 1980s.

David’s poem, “Elegy”, is a work of ecopoetics that implicitly faces the challenge of writing “nature poetry” in the Anthropocene.

 

*Featured image ‘View from the balcony‘ by Fairy Duff (Public Domain 1.0)