Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty
Author | : Gillian Britton |
Publisher | : Wakefield Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2009 |
ISBN-10 | : 186254834X |
ISBN-13 | : 9781862548343 |
Rating | : 4/5 (4X Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 'In these stories, poems and photographs with Adelaide as its theme, the city sighs with shifting sands. Its mornings swirl with readdressed mail and untended gardens, its afternoons seethe with melting bitumen and its nights crackle with heat, breakdown, the attrition of marriages. The city disgorges stories in the way waste yields coloured glass, not as a collector's item but as something being halted from passing out of memory.' - From the foreword by Brian Castro Contributors include: Nicholas Jose, Jude Aquilina, Rachel Hennessy, Anne Bartlett, Carol LeFevre, Jill Jones, Ken Bolton, Graham Rowlands and John Tranter, writing as Mark Pallas.