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'‘The people of Incognita have walled themselves in…’
'House of the Flight-helpers by Tasmanian author Philomena van Rijswijk is a strange and satirical narrative, a mythological mosaic of horrors, feather phobias, dead saints, clay flutes, terrible birds, Border Monkeys, forbidden zones and unsettling forebodings. It casts the reader into the future, a future left trammelled by the glacial passage of xenophobia and exclusion. It is a parable of sorts, and considers the biggest questions and insecurities of our age, one of the most poignant of which is: when we exclude the outsider, are we, in fact, imprisoning and impoverishing ourselves?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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North to Garradunga
2019
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— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , June no. 11 2019; -
[Review] House of the Flight Helpers
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 122 2019;
— Review of House of the Flight-helpers 2019 single work novel
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[Review] House of the Flight Helpers
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 122 2019;
— Review of House of the Flight-helpers 2019 single work novel -
North to Garradunga
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , June no. 11 2019;
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