There are those who maintain that the principal aesthetic/moral aim of literature is ‘to hold a mirror up to reality.’ Tim Richards’ Thought Crimes certainly does this, because a mirror …
A Worthy Mirror of Reality: Tim Richards' Thought Crimes
Review by Ben Carmichael There are those who maintain that the principal aesthetic/moral aim of literature is ‘to hold a mirror up to reality’. Tim Richards’ Thought Crimes certainly does …
The Rattler & other stories
I’m delighted to announce the publication of my first collection of stories. The Rattler & other stories will be published in late October 2011 by Spineless Wonders. * “Spare and …
The City Lights of San Francisco (Graham Nunn)
folding tacos with her left hand she rolls a cigarette wake of the ferry a young couple fight over the timetable long night sirens …
THAT EXTRA KICK: an interview with Graham Nunn
ASHLEY CAPES Your newest collection Ocean Hearted includes a confident blend of haiku and verse. I’m interested in how you see haiku interacting with your verse poetry. GRAHAM NUNN I …
Jessica Au's Cargo reviewed by Bel Woods
If Puberty Blues was one extreme of teenage beach culture, Cargo is another. It’s the loners; the kids who mature quietly at the fringes, drift, dip their toes into the social norms associated with …
Everything is as it should be: Jessica Au's Cargo
Review by Bel Woods If Puberty Blues was one extreme of teenage beach culture, Cargo is another. It’s the loners; the kids who mature quietly at the fringes, drift, dip their toes into the …
Holding (Paul Hetherington)
He held her body lightly, shirted as it was, falling backwards as it was, away from him. He read in her arched back the prow-lines of figureheads on ships …
ABORIGINES, SHARKS AND AUSTRALIAN ACCENTS On Australian Writing (Jo Case)
At last year’s Adelaide Writers Festival, during a session on The Macquarie Anthology of Australian Literature, an impassioned argument broke out on the subject of Australian writing. Robert Dessaix declared …
ABORIGINES, SHARKS AND AUSTRALIAN ACCENTS: On Australian Writing (Jo Case)
At last year’s Adelaide Writers Festival, during a session on The Macquarie Anthology of Australian Literature, an impassioned argument broke out on the subject of Australian writing. Robert Dessaix declared …