Between the Leaves
Preview | “Unfinished Business” by Dr. Jeanine Leane
“I came back decades later to rooms she cleaned
in ruins of a homestead on the River of
my Country. Cast iron gates built on years of
bumper crops, golden fleeces, free labour, swing
open on rusty hinges like pages in an unfinished story.”
About the author
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, teacher and academic from southwest New South Wales. After a longer teaching career, she completed a doctorate in Australian literature and Aboriginal representation and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University.
Credits
Hosts Ellen van Neerven, Hermina Burns
Poem Leane, Jeanine. “Unfinished Business”. Cordite Poetry Review, 1 February 2019.
Music (Intro) Loop Lady – 2. In the Middle by Sally Whitwell; (outro) Black Smoke by Emily Wurramara
Co-producers Mary Crooks AO, Maria Chetcuti, Ally Oliver-Perham
Sound engineer Nicholas Pollock
Recording Squeak E. Clean Studios, the Voice Plant
Graphic design Aimee Carruthers
