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Verses for Deborah
Paperback
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $42.00
ISBN13: 9781764639903
Publisher: Centred in Choice
Published: Apr 27 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In cities, pride is celebration.
In country towns, it is courage.
Verses for Deborah is a verse novel about visibility, consequence, and the quiet work that sustains equality.
Across fifteen years of change, a group of connected lives move through the shifting landscape of queer visibility in Australia. Kathy Lang commands attention on stage. Her sister Bec calculates the policy and funding that keep community services alive. Dawn watches through the camera, documenting the movement as it unfolds. Journalist Darryll Davey learns that the stories behind the headlines are rarely simple. And far from the parade lights, Deb, working quietly as a volunteer in regional South Australia, keeps showing up to council meetings and funding negotiations to protect the young people most at risk of being forgotten.
As pride grows more visible, backlash grows louder. Cameras can celebrate, but they can also expose. Media attention brings recognition, but also scrutiny. And the work of equality often happens far from the spectacle; through policy, persistence, and the courage of those who refuse to stop asking.
Written in a flowing sequence of lyrical, reflective verses, Verses for Deb explores the tension between celebration and responsibility, spectacle and governance, city pride and regional survival.
This is a story about what pride costs, and the quiet persistence required to keep equality alive once the parade ends.
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