As explained in the book’s notes, of which there are eight pages, three of the poems – The March, The Work, and History of Botany Bay – “are composed from extracts from The Bulletin: Anti-Chinaman Special Number. Ostensibly, it is about the rise and fall of a relationship, and from within its ashes the setting alight of a new love. Degeneracy is not the place’s fault, but perhaps it issues from the conditions of one’s relation to it – which returns us to Nora’s lieux de mémoire and a “play of memory and history”.
Author: Craig Billingham, Lecturer, Creative Writing, UNSW Sydney
Published at: 2026-01-18 23:34:27
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