The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.
Tag: Australian
Review: A Couple Of Things Before The End by Sean O’Beirne
These stories are about traditional Aussie men, all at sea in their emotions.
Review: A Treacherous Country by K. M. Kruimink
A strange and misty novel set in colonial Van Diemen’s Land.
Review: Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
Eggshell Skull is a compelling and infuriating insight into the justice system, and the psychology of victimhood.
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: 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: The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr
The Lost Arabs is a collection of cosmological, mystical poetry, a search for belonging and god in hell on earth.
