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‘Melanoma Country’

January 22, 2020 6:48 am

Jonathan Happold is a veterinarian and epidemiologist based in Canberra. He wrote his poem, Melanoma Country on 2nd January 2020 as south east Australia was on fire. He included the following:  READ MORE

And my own contribution to the subject…  Desertification

#MelanomaCountry   #DrJonathanHappold #ClimateChange  #BushfireTragedy   

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3 Responses to “‘Melanoma Country’”

1. It makes the poems even more devastating to hear them read aloud.

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   By Liz Gauffreau on January 22, 2020 at 11:14 am

   1. Thanks, Liz. I do intend to record more of my poems…

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      By Frances Macaulay Forde on January 22, 2020 at 3:53 pm

      1. Oh, good! I’ll look forward to hearing them.

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         By Liz Gauffreau on January 22, 2020 at 11:57 pm

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