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Please join us for the launch of Bel Hawley's verse novella "Wending".Wending follows a newly widowed woman who is sent to a river so remote it has no official name. In the mostly uninhabitable terrain, she survives, through her work and in her hope of returning home, but as time moves on, her erratic behaviour pushes her to further extremes. She begins to see a woman in her peripheral.
In a text where form reflects the single focus of a woman as she casts away her old life to follow a path to its bitter end, the outcast female accepts ostracisation and challenges narrative and social norms.
‘Writing with a tangible physicality about the isolating experience of grief, Bel Hawley creates a rich and evocative frontline of wilderness to reflect a woman working and journeying through an abandoned landscape. The verse is extraordinarily visceral and profoundly moving. I discovered myself shedding tears.’
– Susan Francis, author of The Love that Remains
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Buck Mulligan's, 217 High St, Northcote VIC 3070, Australia, Northcote
