'To see the world afresh we ‘make it strange’. It is also a way of creeping close to realities and fears we have difficulty talking about. '

To see the world afresh we ‘make it strange’. It is also a way of creeping up close to realities, instincts and fears we have difficulty thinking or talking about. For Les Murray’s ‘Pigs’ the abattoir, and hence death, is incomprehensible: