Each year I send a book list to friends and contacts with highlights from my previous year’s reading — and they love it. This week The Cove Observer is publishing my list. Here it is for people who haven’t seen it yet and who don’t live in Lane Cove, on the Lower North Shore of Sydney.
Patrick Lenton’s collection A Man Made Entirely of Bats is a leap into the surreal, comedic, satirical, punchy and resonant. Launched on February 18, its short-short stories and micro-lit lift the spandex on super-heroes and turn over the rocks that hide strange things. The result is that rarest of birds: smart literature that makes you laugh.
joanne burns taught me a lot about writing during my time at university and with her recent poetry collection, brush, my education continues. What I relish in her work, old and new, is its humour and playfulness, its gimlet-eyed perception and its voltaic surge. In burns’ spirit of inventiveness, I’ve chosen several definitions of the
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