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AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS & WRITERS FOR PEACE
RAZOR-WIRE NATION by Tony Birch

[Above] Photo of Tony Birch by photographer unknown, year unknown.

Tony Birch


RAZOR-WIRE NATION

they ran a line of wire
along the empty beaches

where only yesterday
our feet met the shore

while love is an empty box
we busily tend the cages

we are gun-turret saviours
in a razor-wire nation

About the Poet Tony Birch

Tony Birch is a writer and historian who is currently teaching Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Melbourne. He publishes in the areas of poetry, fiction and literary non-fiction. He also writes critique on Australian culture, with a particular interest in the politics of race. His poetry and short fiction is widely published in journals and anthologies in Australia such as Aedon, Meanjin, Salt, Antithesis, Cultural Studies Review and Australian Historical Studies. Tony had three poems devised for the exhibition Australian cultural issues redefined by digitally crafted domestic objects, for sculptural artist Gordon Burnett, published in exhibition catalogue, Monash University Gallery, Caulfield campus, December 1999.
   [Above] Photo of Tony Birch by photographer unknown, year unknown.

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