Whale-shocked

by Sue Aldred

Overview

'Of course Whale-shocked is about whales, the shocking history of whaling, and our changing attitudes to it. Written as a remarkable long-form poem, Sue Aldred uses her own family history from the 1800s when her ancestor sailed on the killer boats, at a time when whales were seen only as a resource, there for the plunder, through to the current century where she and her family support whale conservationists, understanding whales as awesome intelligent creatures with much to teach us. This is an important work. The historical detail is as fascinating as the poetry is powerful, and for once has a happier-than-most ending.' - Karen Throssell

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781761094538
Publisher:	Ginninderra Press
Publication date:	12/20/2022
Pages:	54
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.11(d)

About the Author

Sue Aldred lives on 100 acres of bushland on Wurundjeri country, in forested foothills north-east of Melbourne. In 2019, she and fellow writers, the Literary Optimists, self-published an anthology called Glass Half Full. In 2022 two of her poems were long-listed in the inaugural Liquid Amber Poetry Prize (Poetry of Encounter); with another poem highly commended in the Venie Holmgren Prize for Environmental Poetry. This is her first published work.