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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Merlinda Bobis
To love in language, to sing a landscape, to dance through a rice grain in peace and in war.
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The eyes catch a black bird close to an eerie sun. Instantly, a poem: an accident of composition. Or a tree, rock, light from a story heard, dreamt, read or…
Lucy Van
Van’s poetry is an ongoing decolonial passage. Each opened space and time takes to task the one just left, then comes home to the poet, her self-reflexive though pointing to…
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In her award-winning debut novel, Bobis creates a dazzling feast for all the senses. Richly imagined, Banana Heart Summer is an incandescent tale of food, family, and longing–at once a…
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From the award-winning author of Banana Heart Summer comes a wondrous tale of hope, secrets, and family devotion in a season of miracles.
An anomalous kiss. A white turtle ferrying the dreams of the dead. A working siesta in a five-star hotel. A womanAzAzAzs twelve-metre hair trawling corpses from a river. Or a…
It’s 1987. The Philippine government fights a total war against insurgency. The village of Iraya is militarised. The days are violent and the nights heavy with fireflies in the river…
An oriole sings to a dying father. A bleeding-heart dove saves the day. A crow wakes a woman’s resolve. Owls help a boy endure isolation. Cockatoos attend the laying of…
Most everything has dried up: water, the womb, even the love among lovers. Hunger is rife, except across the border. One night, a village is bombed after its men attempt…
