People who work in small independent bookshops often find themselves going to great lengths to satisfy customers, no matter how idiosyncratic their tastes might be. But the truly dedicated …
The playful provocation of a complex tapestry (Robyn Cadwallader)
The cover of Susan Hawthorne’s Cow, both back and front, is an Indian-style patchwork featuring cows in paintings, photos, carvings, bas relief, even street signs (‘Beware of Cattle on Road’), …
The Playful Provocation of a Complex Tapestry: Susan Hawthorne’s Cow
Review by Robyn Cadwallader The cover of Susan Hawthorne’s Cow, both back and front, is an Indian-style patchwork featuring cows in paintings, photos, carvings, bas relief, even street signs (‘Beware …
Ghosts I and II (Sarah St Vincent Welch)
I Ghosts shift by the road in the moonlight, standing in line, alert. A collision with a kangaroo is not only unpalatable to the kangaroo but is expensive to the …
Eight Rules for Making Fire (Shane Strange)
I watch him through the kitchen window as he cuts the wood, outside, in the cold morning. He has his back to me. I watch as he braces his …
Do You Remember? (Laurie Steed)
It’s fifteen years since the accident and the guy who fell off the ute is back on track. He’s got a job at DPC and has coffee-drinking competitions with a …
THE REACH AND THE ENGAGEMENT: an interview with Rob Spillman
EMILY KIDDELL I heard a rumour that the good people of Tin House might be keen to visit Australia with a version of the increasingly popular Tin House Summer Writers …
A Grave Turn (Ashley Capes)
streets have a saliva sheen, the stones bathing in it. fog is school-pants grey, thick on the tongue. the older trams shudder until they stop and the conductor retires. drunks …
The remembered, the haunted, and the differing (Robyn Cadwallader)
The Abbotsford Mysteries is Patricia Sykes’ third poetry collection. A surprising title, perhaps, for a book about the girls who were cared for at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne, home …
The Remembered, the Haunted, and the Differing: Patricia Sykes’ The Abbotsford Mysteries
Review by Robyn Cadwallader The Abbotsford Mysteries is Patricia Sykes’ third poetry collection. A surprising title, perhaps, for a book about the girls who were cared for at the Abbotsford …