Nightmares run like mercury by Paul Collis
Nightmares run like mercury by Paul Collis

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Nightmares Run Like Mercury

From the author of the David Unaipon award winning novel Dancing Home.

Paul Collis’ first collection of poetry is a book of difficult truths and profound connections. It charts a life lived on the streets, on country, in the deep time of tradition, of relationships to land and family. This book mourns those who have passed, and the current state of places and people held close in the heart and in the kinds of knowledge inseparable from self that might be called ‘being’, but is always much more than that. It is also a poetry of hope in the hopeless, of beauty in small moments, and the overwhelming ‘now’ that is memory.

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Story Ground: The anthology

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Story Ground is a place of story, of attentiveness and support. A place where stories are held  safely and dearly, and are shared bravely—the very foundation of Community and Culture.

Story Ground: The anthology is a collection of prose writing, poetry and storytelling deriving from a series of workshops based on traditional Indigenous practices of storytelling and knowledge. The authors come from far flung places. Their writings here are breathtakingly powerful. This anthology is for the keeping and for returning to—a collection that you will find yourself reading and embracing, time and again.

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From the author of the David Unaipon award winning novel Dancing Home.

Paul Collis’ first collection of poetry is a book of difficult truths and profound connections. It charts a life lived on the streets, on country, in the deep time of tradition, of relationships to land and family. This book mourns those who have passed, and the current state of places and people held close in the heart and in the kinds of knowledge inseparable from self that might be called ‘being’. It is also a poetry of hope in the hopeless, of beauty in small moments, and the overwhelming ‘now’ that is memory.

‘There is no curtain in a jail cell. And there is no veil to mask the brutal truths in this exceptional collection. This is Aboriginal Australia. This is the bravery of resilience. This is the narrative written from behind the wall.’

Ali Cobby Eckermann Yankunytjatjara poet and storyteller

‘The story lines within Dr Paul Collis’s pages speak a universal tongue; songs of love and suffering…messages exacting and clear!  This is soul-poetry…parables from the heart’s yearning…’

Samuel Wagan Watson

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