I'm a historian but Tony Birch's poetry opened my eyes to confronting truths about the past
- Written by: Anna Clark, Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
William Barak, Figures in possum skin cloaks, 1898.Wikimedia CommonsIn this series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking.
Sixty years ago, when the historian E.H. Carr famously asked What is History?, he determined the answer to be a constant dialogue between the present and the past. The past is...