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The Burial by Courtney Collins

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October 2012, no. 345

The Burial by Courtney Collins

Allen & Unwin, $27.99 pb, 291 pp, 9781743311875

The Burial by Courtney Collins

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October 2012, no. 345

 In the cheeky biographical note on the press release for her first novel, The Burial, Courtney Collins expresses a wish that she might one day be ‘a “lady” poet’. If I had read that before reading the novel, I would have been slightly alarmed: with many notable exceptions, poets tend not to make good novelists. It is true that The Burial is finely written, with a lovely ear for the cadences of language, but it also has an urgent narrative drive, along with a strong awareness of place, compelling characters, and a whiff of magic realism to enliven the mixture.

Gillian Dooley reviews 'The Burial' by Courtney Collins

The Burial

by Courtney Collins

Allen & Unwin, $27.99 pb, 291 pp, 9781743311875

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