![]() ![]() And so, while “How green is my valley” drew from her experience on a farm in northern New South Wales, this essay draws from her return, after losing her farm through divorce, to the town of Logan, one of Australia’s ten poorest urban areas. ![]() Instead of dry reportage, she starts from the personal, and from that draws conclusions that make sense. Lucashenko’s essays make engaging reading. In “Sinking below sight” her subject is poverty. The last essay of hers that I reviewed, “How green is my valley”, dealt with stewardship of the land and the threat imposed by climate change. ![]() With her mixed European and indigenous Australian heritage, Lucashenko is well placed to tackle significant contemporary issues and see them from multiple perspectives. I really must get to one of her novels one day! I’ve reviewed Lucashenko before, an essay and a short story. I’ve now read the essay, and thought I’d share it with you. In this week’s Monday Musings about the Walkley Awards, I noted that Melissa Lucashenko had won the award for Long Feature Writing for her essay “Sinking below sight: Down and out in Brisbane and Logan” in the Griffith Review. ![]()
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