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Cardboard Incarceration

Jeanine Leane, Australian Book Review, 2016

The poem 'Cardboard Incarceration' was published as part of Australian Book Review’s States of Poetry ACT, in 2016. It is the opening, anchoring poem of Leane’s collection Walk Back Over, published in 2018 by Cordite Books. Its opening lines, starting, 'this cardboard prison', sit on the book’s cover.

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