(C)loud Karen Harrison Dening and how we speak of

and how we speak of divine and human intelligence

Although western humanity has conquered the outer world with the aid of technology and science

During the 1860 Oxford gathering of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

changes in the Latin vocabulary over time (including the evolution of sexual words into general terms of abuse)

(C)loud Karen Harrison Dening and how we speak ofThe poems in this collection respond to the failed institutional responses to child sexual abuse as detailed in the Australian Royal Commission report handed down in 2017. The poems reflect the writers own background in the Roman Catholic tradition and her situation as a settler on stolen First Nations lands and the related institutional failures in both cases. Poet and researcher Anne Elvey was part of a group of four whistleblowers who approached