Sarah Temporal’s ‘Tight Bindings’ Reviewed by Magdalena Ball | Compulsive Reader
‘The poems and their delivery both on the page, and on video, are quietly ferocious, delivered with warmth and gentleness that immediately draws the…
Larry Buttrose’s ‘Everyone On Mars’ Reviewed by Cameron Woodhead | Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
‘Literary playfulness and intertextuality mark the volume, which ranges widely in subject and tone…’ A fine review of Larry Buttrose‘s Everyone On Mars…
Pitaya Chin’s ‘The Director and the Daemon’ Reviewed by Cameron Woodhead | Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
‘The Director and the Daemon is a rare bird in Australian fiction – a novel of ideas – and anyone involved in the arts…
Willo Drummond’s ‘Moon Wrasse’ Reviewed by Misbah Wolf | Mascara Literary Review
‘This book is an homage to love and magick and finding ways to reinscribe very necessary and vital voices and existences that have slipped/been…
Willo Drummond’s ‘Moon Wrasse’ Reviewed by Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne | Plumwood Mountain Journal
‘The lyric mode—for Drummond—becomes a way to decouple language from its enmeshment in the program destroying the world / destroying the possibility for lyric…
Hossein Asgari’s ‘Only Sound Remains’ Reviewed by Max Bledstein | Sydney Review of Books
‘While feelings of hopelessness do not abate for the characters, they are inextricable from the beauty of the literary and cultural allusions prevalent in…
David Kelly’s ‘Host City’ Reviewed by Graeme Aitken | DNA Magazine Australia
‘The publication of ‘Host City’ is very welcome indeed… this book is something of a wild ride!’ Check out Graeme Aitken’s (The Bookshop…
David Kelly’s ‘Host City’ Reviewed by Maks Sipowicz | Meanjin Quarterly
‘What’s most striking about Host City is a sense of longing for the kind of easy camaraderie that comes from finding your people when…
David Kelly’s ‘Host City’ Reviewed by Finley at Collins Booksellers Mildura
‘Host City accomplishes a feeling of absolute realness… something better than either memoir or novel alone: a newly minted myth, so alive and fresh…
David Owen Kelly’s ‘Host City’ Reviewed by Cameron Woodhead | SMH/The Age
‘The fictional elements are realised with a full-bloodedness and emotional delicacy reminiscent of Edmund White.’ A great review of David Kelly‘s Host City…