Books & Poetry
This broad-ranging collection of Blak poetry and story brings together writers with a connection to South Australia and offers a panoramic view of place, identity and the ways they link together.
Books & Poetry
A fresh and comprehensive new narrative reveals how the Adelaide art scene post-World War II was an incubator of progressive ideas and talent, despite often being dismissed or disparaged in the wider mainstream history of Australian art.
Roanna McClelland’s novel highlights the discomforting weight of a bleak future and the hand we have in its creation.
A sincere and sincerely entertaining account of ‘Life, Love and Laughter with Endometriosis’, Adelaide writer and cabaret performer Libby Trainor Parker’s Endo Days is a must-read for anyone living with the chronic medical condition.
In his latest story collection, Adelaide author Stephen Orr charts a child’s progress ‘from the Outer Hebrides to a Mongolian desert, from war to kidnapping, a Midwestern American nightmare, (and) falling from the wheel-well of a Dreamliner’.
Ghost stories, lonely shacks at the edge of the world, shadowy wilderness, and the fierce, maddening heat of a rural South Australian summer: Adelaide-based writer Michelle Jäger’s Bird Bones has all the ingredients of a classic Australian gothic tale.
