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I'm a historian but Tony Birch's poetry opened my eyes to confronting truths about the past

  • Written by: Anna Clark, Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
I'm a historian but Tony Birch's poetry opened my eyes to confronting truths about the pastWilliam Barak, Figures in possum skin cloaks, 1898.Wikimedia Commons

In this series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking.

Sixty years ago, when the historian E.H. Carr famously asked What is History?, he determined the answer to be a constant dialogue between the present and the past. The past is...

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