Fiction

After the Heat

Item: Swallowing Clouds
Author: Terri-ann White

by Terri-ann White •

December 1997–January 1998, no. 197

Swallowing Clouds by Lillian Ng

Penguin, $19.95pb, 305pp

Fiction

After the Heat

by Terri-ann White •

December 1997–January 1998, no. 197

The funny ways we have of writing about sex and how rarely it really works. The memory of how it feels, what is involved, what it means. How strenuously we, as writers and as people who have done it and then talk or write about it, try to capture the movement and intensities we remember. And how ludicrously it so often comes out at that second division, once removed from the flesh and heat.

Terri-ann White

Terri-ann White has been published since the late 1980s, taught writing in the community and universities, and previously been an independent bookseller. Her books include a collection of short stories, one novel, three anthologies, and she has been published widely in journals and anthologies. She has an abiding interest in expression and takes great pleasure in collaborative work with other thinkers and artists, especially in the forms of the visual arts and performance. She is currently Director of UWA Publishing.