Author's grief turning into scar with words: Ailsa Piper delivers Kerferd Oration 2019

Ellen Ebsary
Updated July 28 2019 - 6:25pm, first published 2:22pm
ADDRESS: "Walker and writer" Ailsa Piper delivered the 2019 George Briscoe Kerferd Oration, which began in 2003 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the naming of Beechworth. Picture: TARA TREWHELLA
ADDRESS: "Walker and writer" Ailsa Piper delivered the 2019 George Briscoe Kerferd Oration, which began in 2003 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the naming of Beechworth. Picture: TARA TREWHELLA

In January, Sydney author Ailsa Piper looked to the cliffs at Gap Park where she walks daily and for the first time, "understood what it might feel like to climb over the fence and choose to fall".

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Ellen Ebsary

Ellen Ebsary

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