Blue-Black Liver Great Barrier Reef Melanie Bonajo

Melanie Bonajo

Jacques Renault

In 2019 she won the FAB (Faber) prize for fiction and was selected for the London Writers Awards

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Blue-Black Liver Great Barrier Reef Melanie Bonajo2 Publications Blue Black Liver takes the form of a mock newspaper, its ragged poetry columns and shifting type scales mirroring the fractured flow of water, history, and memory. By adopting the familiar grammar of the newspaper, it exposes the forms limitationsrevealing instead submerged currents of colonial and ecological violence. In the opening spread I splice A. B. Yehoshuas Facing the Forests into a settler colonial greenwashing forest of