A startling collection of poetry, prose-poetry and prose that resists literary colonisation.
Tag: Indigenous writers
Review: Born Into This by Adam Thompson
Born Into This is an effective demand to be heard.
Review: Collisions (edited by Leah Jing McIntosh, Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein and Hassan Abul)
Collisions aims to “shift the Australian imaginary”.
Review: Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green
A beautiful, profoundly moving tribute to the relationship between mother and daughter.
Review: Song Of The Crocodile by Nardi Simpson
Another unpredictable and unsettling novel from the latest flourishing of Aboriginal writing.
The best books I’ve read 2020
The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.
Review: Fire Country by Victor Steffensen
Victor Steffensen offers a language to articulate here we want to go and how to get there.
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.
Review: Throat by Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven conjures magic from trauma in this fluid collection full of warmth and light.
