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A Red Turning Earlier:
A Postulate for Ali Alizadeh

history’s obliterating reply
failed by possession
she clamours for ritual

in the duplicitous grey dawn
as distemporal images
horizon sibilant on riverbed cinders
we were but listless hunters
adrift in the word’s white armature

the consequence is chrysalid
you are my ruins of earth
half-articulated

something consigned to memory
plunges in the reflection of the white pall of image’s field
our presence glitters in wounded constellations

incanting you—
on this consecrated ground
I incant a name
an image’s inchoate exteriority

how do you atone for history
in the landscape of the mind
arrivals at the silence beginning


 
 
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The Work

Matthew Halls' academic work encompasses traditional and contemporary aspects of landscape theory and theoretic writings on the radical pastoral. His writings reflect, commit to, or reframe, aspects of this theory and aim to address the manner in which the Australian landscape and environment affect concepts of myth, history and the metonymic relation of the land to Indigenous rite and ritual.

Matthew Hall

Matthew Hall is a poet, essayist, occasional theorist and a doctoral candidate at the University of Western Australia. He is currently working on a dissertation on J.H. Prynne, as well as a series of poetic essays that pertain to the radical pastoral. He is the Feature Editor at Cordite Poetry Review. His poetry, fiction and criticism are featured in literary and arts journals around the world.