UWA Publishing
Eta Draconis by Brendan Ritchie & The Comforting Weight of Water by Roanna McClelland
by J.R. Burgmann •
Collected Poems by John Kinsella & Collected Poems by John Kinsella
by John Hawke •
Settlers, Servants & Slaves: Aboriginal and European children in nineteenth-century Western Australia by Penelope Hetherington
by Peggy Brock •
Tripping Over Feathers: Scenes in the life of Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams by Peter Read
by Sarah Kanowski •
The Unforgiving Rope: Murder and hanging on Australia's western frontier by Simon Adams
by Richard Harding •
Fish Work by Caitlin Maling & Earth Dwellers by Kristen Lang
by Ella Jeffery •
A Thousand Crimson Blooms by Eileen Chong & Turbulence by Thuy On
by James Jiang •
Oliver Driscoll’s note on his first book I Don’t Know How That Happened (Recent Work Press, $19.95 pb, 74 pp) praises the inclusive flatness of David Hockney’s still life paintings, and it is to this inclusiveness that his poems and prose pieces aspire. Droll reported speech creates a comic atmosphere but also moves into Kafkaesque alienation where nothing seems to follow any pattern.
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