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'Dachshund droids, sinister crones, shapeshifting children, a plethora of witches, dragonstalkers, familiars, slithering eels and, of course, bats, flit and fly through these pages, aided and abetted by Kathleen Jennings’s inspired pencil drawings. Stray Bats is a madcap miscellany consisting of fifty vignettes based on poems by Australian women. Lanagan delights in playing with language, rhyme, and rhythm.
'This could be the perfect gift for that slightly otherworldly person in your life—or for yourself, when you need a moment of magic, a dip into darkness, a spark of light.
'For the reader who would like to explore further, there are a list of poems that inspired the author and notes on where those poems might be found.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Author's note: Pieces in this book were inspired by the following poems and are published with the approval of the poets or, where applicable, their copyright holders.
[See individual stories for details.]
Contents
- A Wind Age, single work short story (p. 1)
- Kites in the Fog, single work short story (p. 2)
- Constellation, single work short story (p. 3)
- Maiden, single work short story (p. 4)
- More Information to Help You Get to Rookwood, single work short story (p. 5)
- Sail Away, single work short story (p. 6)
- Maiden Flight, single work short story (p. 7)
- Stray Bats, single work short story (p. 8)
- Readying, single work short story (p. 9)
- Shrunken Alice, single work short story (p. 10)
- Flight to Loreto, single work short story (p. 11-12)
- Familiars, single work short story (p. 13)
- Shore, single work short story (p. 14)
- Party to an Invocation, single work short story (p. 15)
- Emplotment, single work short story (p. 16-17)
- Hag-hunter, single work short story (p. 18)
- Flight School, single work short story (p. 19)
- The Axe, single work short story (p. 20)
- Win, single work short story (p. 21)
- Foxwife, single work short story fantasy (p. 22)
