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Absolutely Revolting
Poetry
by Peter Kenneally •
September 2012, no. 344

Snowline by Jo Langdon

Whitmore Press, $19.95 pb, 31 pp

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A childhood in Australia, safe and dry, but somehow incomplete: then time overseas defining the self against a different sky; finally, the return home, perhaps to start a family and begin the cycle all over again. This is the experience, recognisable to so many Australians, that Jo Langdon encompasses, with a crisp and clear eye, in Snowline, the latest in a series of small chapbooks from Whitmore Press.

 


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Snowline by Jo Langdon

Whitmore Press, $19.95 pb, 31 pp

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