Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Native Australian Studies. “If language is a virus, DIRTY WORDS is an inoculation, the alphabet jabbed by a ‘sing-chant-rage’ that liberates the breath and restores the heart. Natalie Harkin joins the great chain of Indigenous Australian voices that rise and stir and sing, shaking their shackles to the earth like blood that blooms letters of power.” Peter Minter”