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Forgiveness
Healing through silence
History as rupture
Identity and recognition
Indigenous Voice referendum
Listening
Modernity and disenchantment
Mystical activism
Physics and metaphysics
Poetry of the everyday
Silence vs. Noise
Time and memory
Traumaaus
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- ISBN 9781761170751
- Dimensions: 111 x 181mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2026
- Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Hardback
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I am out of words at home. I have grown bored with my language, bored with my voice, bored with my writing. My words labour under the weight of Australia’s history. The land itself, as much as I love it, bears down hard. Now in another place, I am finding lighter words. At times, I may not need to speak at all. I smile; I nod. I seek permission to speak. Please, do you mind? Will you allow me?
In an important book for our times, Stan Grant – one of Australia’s most prominent writers on identity, nationhood and belonging – reflects on how we struggle to speak to one another today, and the importance of listening, silence and philosophy, from Plato to Simone Weil to Radiohead.
In an important book for our times, Stan Grant – one of Australia’s most prominent writers on identity, nationhood and belonging – reflects on how we struggle to speak to one another today, and the importance of listening, silence and philosophy, from Plato to Simone Weil to Radiohead.
Stan Grant is a proud Wiradjuri man, and the Vice Chancellor's Chair of Australian-Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University. He was formerly ABC's Global Affairs and Indigenous Affairs Analyst. He is the award-winning and bestselling author of several books, including Talking To My Country, The Queen Is Dead, Murriyang and Australia Day.
