The Wallace Line: A Poem

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While interrogating the tragedy of colonialism and the often fraught nature of exploration and discovery, The Wallace Line: A Poem honours co-existence, a world of merging borders, where the oud can resonate along with the bird of paradise, the blue pigment in a Titian painting with the sound of a Javanese gamelan in moonlight. In celebrating trajectory as artefact the poem is both a call for beauty, and a plea for compassion, in a divided world.

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Jennifer Mackenzie lives in Naarm/Melbourne. The Wallace Line: A Poem is the third volume, following Borobudur and Navigable Ink, in a series exploring what has become the home of her Imagination, Indonesia. She has appeared at conferences and festivals across Asia, most recently at the Ubud Writers Festival, and the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters in Trivandrum, India.