Return to Dust by Dani Powell

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Type
Paperback
Author
Dimensions
198mm x 128mm
Weight
206g
ISBN
9781760801380
Published
April 1, 2020
Publisher
UWA Publishing
Number of Pages
180
Stock
In stock
About
Stranded between landscape and metaphor, searching for traction in the rituals of the western desert, a woman excavates memory and the archaeological evidence of an ancient catastrophe to come to terms with the death of her brother. Return to Dust is a haunting and poetic meditation on grief and the omnipresence of death in life.

Kim Mahood

Dani Powell

Author

Dani Powell

Dani Powell is a writer and performance-maker, who grew up in
Brisbane and has lived in Mparntwe/ Alice Springs since 1999. Her short
stories and poetry have been published in several literary journals and anthologies and her poem Sketch of this Day won the Poetry Prize in the NT Literary Awards in
2009. Her outdoor, location-based performances have been produced in
and around Alice Springs since 1999, with her company red shoes. Her
performance Under Today – traces of Eastside, Mparntwe, Alice Springs was redeveloped for Radio National in 2015.

Dani was formerly Community Producer of Big hART’s Ngapartji
Ngapartji project and currently works with senior Pitjantjatjara and
Nyaanyatjarra women and ngangkari on NPY Women’s Council’s ‘Uti Kulintjaku’ project. Dani directs the NT Writers’ Festival in Alice Springs. Return to Dust is her first full-length work of fiction.

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