Eggshell Skull is a compelling and infuriating insight into the justice system, and the psychology of victimhood.
Author: James Whitmore
I am a writer based in Melbourne. I’m interested in nature and the environment, and queer books.
Review: Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral
These are brutal, bruised poems, like desert storms, lit with lightning strokes of beauty.
Review: Real Life by Brandon Taylor
An aching novel of a young man trying to find a place in the world.
Review: Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
Stone Sky Gold Mountain offers a rearranging of Australian history, reminding us other settlers were also here in the early days.
Review: Living With The Anthropocene (edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell)
The writers in this collection grapple with what it means to be “planetary” beings: how our individual actions can seem so small, but have global consequences.
Review: Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
A dreamy, mirage-like novel where things change shape before your eyes.
Review: Fire Country by Victor Steffensen
Victor Steffensen offers a language to articulate here we want to go and how to get there.
Review: Poly by Paul Dalgarno
Poly is a riot of a novel, an all out brawl.
Review: Rainforest by Eileen Chong
These are austere, still poems about the things embodied in words.
Review: Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne
Cherry Beach is a painful portrait of millennial queer life, and agonising desire.
