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'Literary Nillumbik Anthology features the winning short stories and poems from the Alan Marshall Short Story Award 2016 and Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award 2016.' (Publication summary)
Contents
- Under the Skin of Things, single work short story (p. 8-13)
-
Earth Orbit,
single work
short story
(p. 14-19)
'This is a hugely heart-warming love letter from an adult to their mother – rich both in tone and theme. Earth Orbit is a story that creeps up on you. In the opening paragraphs, the imagery is deceptively naïve and the child’s voice almost cloying, but what we come quickly to appreciate is that the spaceship we have entered is in fact a Datsun 120Y the child’s homeless mother has decorated with blue cellophane, pricked through with starry holes, in an act of maternal love and protection that borders on the heroic.
'The redemptive power of story and the imagination underpins this moving narrative, as ongoing hardship is reshaped and so endured, the importance of what is real or not becoming less crucial than the fierce, joyful love between a mother and child.' (6)
- Flower of Distant Seasoni"did you reflect on the possibility", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Two Hands Touching : The Gifti"For hours he carved squatting by the fire", single work poetry (p. 25)
- Bones Hiddeni"So is the human spirit", single work poetry (p. 26)
- This Mute and Tidy Skull and Cross Bonesi"this mute and tidy skull and cross bones", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Stonei"You were bound to be shifted", single work poetry (p. 28)
- Metai"There, where the trees clear, an abandoned easel.", single work poetry (p. 29)
- Bad Wateri"I studied gongfu cha", single work poetry (p. 30)
- Wurundjeri Treasurei"Wurundjeri artist,", single work poetry (p. 31)
- I Found You in the Gardeni"I found you in the garden – a great glassy pain", single work poetry (p. 32)
