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'Within the first few pages of Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, one encounters a raft of losses. The book, which centres around three siblings, Anna, Tommy and Terzo, and their mother Francie, opens with the vanishing of Anna’s middle finger; Tommy recounts the loss of ladybirds, soldier beetles, bluebottles, earwigs, Christmas beetles, flying ant swarms, frogs and cicadas and their songs, emperor gum moths, Persian rug wings, quolls, potoroos, pardalotes, swift parrots, great kelp forests, abalone, and crayfish; and it becomes known that there is a fourth sibling, Ronnie, who died in his teens.' (Editorial introduction)
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Review of ‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams’,
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— Review of The Living Sea of Waking Dreams 2020 single work novel ;'Within the first few pages of Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, one encounters a raft of losses. The book, which centres around three siblings, Anna, Tommy and Terzo, and their mother Francie, opens with the vanishing of Anna’s middle finger; Tommy recounts the loss of ladybirds, soldier beetles, bluebottles, earwigs, Christmas beetles, flying ant swarms, frogs and cicadas and their songs, emperor gum moths, Persian rug wings, quolls, potoroos, pardalotes, swift parrots, great kelp forests, abalone, and crayfish; and it becomes known that there is a fourth sibling, Ronnie, who died in his teens.' (Introduction)
- Matters of the Heart, single work essay
- Landscape Manifest, single work essay
- (Life) Grants Writer, single work short story
- A Moment of Light in the Einstein Cafe, single work short story
- Einstein's Brain, sequence poetry
- Dark Cloud Constellationi"Because our dreams were always linear,", single work poetry
- Folding and Tiltingi"Driving the island’s coast road", single work poetry
- There Is a Shape to Treesi"There is a shape to trees, to this tree, long legs, thin waist,", single work poetry
- Repurposing a Bleedi"My blood too is up-welled from other existences, winnowed", single work poetry
