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Tag: Australian

Review: Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

Eggshell Skull is a compelling and infuriating insight into the justice system, and the psychology of victimhood.

Australian, Criminal justice system, Memoir, Sexual assault

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.

Australian, China, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical

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.

Anthology, Anthropocene, Australian, Climate change, Conservation, Environment, Nonfiction

Review: Fire Country by Victor Steffensen

Victor Steffensen offers a language to articulate here we want to go and how to get there.

Australian, Climate change, Environment, Indigenous writers

Review: Poly by Paul Dalgarno

Poly is a riot of a novel, an all out brawl.

Australian, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel, polyamory

Review: Rainforest by Eileen Chong

These are austere, still poems about the things embodied in words.

Australian, China, Poetry, Singapore

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.

Arabic writing, Australian, Colonialism, Middle East, Poetry

Review: The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay

The Animals In That Country is premised on the idea that if we could suddenly understand what are animals are saying, it would drive us insane.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Spec-fic, Speculative

Review: Mammoth by Chris Flynn

A mammoth and a tyrannosaurus skeleton find themselves in storage, setting the stage for a fascinating and ultimately moving romp through history.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Dinosaurs, Environment, Extinction, Fiction, Novel

Review: After Australia (edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad)

“Australia is just a glitch,” writes Wiradjuri writer Hannah Donnelly. After Australia is a collection of speculative fiction that explores what Australia is, and could be.

Anthology, Australian, Fiction, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, Racism

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