Enjoyed your post Maria.
Though there's a flip side for those Tasmanians for whom the "green and lush island" remains their experience. Eg Pete Hay. "... I'm increasingly thinking that to write Tasmania is to write an anti-Australian literature. New Zealand poetry speaks to me more than does Australian poetry. Because I share the same sort of landscape icons, the plunging, uneven landscape that. I'm accustomed to in Tasmania, the forests and ravines and canyons and mountains. So I keep looking across the Tasman for poetic inspiration."
Ralph
>I struggle in my writing, with the sense that Tasmania, my home, is often
>portrayed as a green and lush island, promoted through evocative and
>beautiful images of wilderness and water. Yet the landscape in which I live
>is drought stricken, dry, barren and dying.
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