Gert

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It is 1924 near Queenstown on the west coast of Tasmania. A boy holds a double-barrelled gun with a bright-eyed black cockatoo perched on the barrel. A young woman with short curly hair stands beside him in the button grass a dead black cockatoo dangling from each hand.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When artist and poet Jacqui Malins saw this arresting image in a photograph she was captivated by the woman's face and intrigued by the scene.  What is this place? Who is this woman and what is she doing?</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>GERT</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a non-fiction narrative collection of poetry and images. It tells two inseparable life stories: one of a place and the other of a woman who lived there.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>