Peggy Frew (an award-winning novelist and member of the indie rock band, Art of Fighting) explores a powerful and often-familiar landscape of loneliness, addiction and sibling relationships in ‘Wildflowers’ (an extract from her fourth novel – to be published in 2022) as three very different sisters set off on an intervention masquerading as a holiday.

Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes plots the course of our daydreams, our transformations and our jailbreaks. It takes us across borders and through open minds to places once out of reach, lighting for the territory to access new worlds.

Where are we now, and where do we want to be tomorrow? And who do we want to be when we get there? As another testing year comes to an end, this edition celebrates what might come next.

From mermaids and space matriarchs to fresh starts and flights of fancy, Escape Routes explores what it means to break out and break free.

Peggy Frew reading Wildflowers from Griffith Review 74 Escape Routes

How can we hold together big ambition for social change on issues like climate alongside the small work required to build powerful connections across our diversity and difference? This piece explores the tensions of scale between big and small, fast and slow through stories and reflections across a life of organising. Our host Amanda Tattersall reads a memoir that she wrote for the Griffith Review in their August edition entitled Hey Utopia.

You can find the Griffith Review here: https://www.griffithreview.com/editions/hey-utopia/. 

For more on ChangeMakers check us out:
Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org
On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/
On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts

Peggy Frew reading Wildflowers from Griffith Review 74 Escape Routes

Griffith Review

Related tracks