Archive > May 2009

Ten Things I’ve Learned from Darwin

This is a short piece I wrote for the weekend Australian Magazine about my work with Charles Darwin. It was published the weekend following his birthday in February, 2009. 

When I was five, my father put me on his knee and tried to explain the history of evolution to me. I stared in disbelief, as everything [...]

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Poems as Archeology

 
 
 
 
I just received this poem from an old friend on my email. It is a poem I wrote, years ago, typed out on my typewriter and which she has kept for fifteen years. What a strange a precious object to receive, scanned against the stark white background of my email, worn and crinkled like an [...]

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