Fishtails In The Dust. Writing From The Centre

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Ptilotus Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 222 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Fishtails in the dust is a triumph of literature from the whos who of the literary and eloquent voices of Central Australia, a tribute to what it is like to live in the Centre in new and strange times. The closeness and strong attachment that all these writers have to this magnificent ancient country can be seen in how closely they have listened to capture its essence. As Michael Watts beautiful lines say —My daughter sleeps, while I write this amidstThe muted light, the murmuring of the creek,The soft morning of birds.This important book is very much the potent messenger for our times from the writers who are searching for the words to tell the stories from their heart, and I have found there is much to think about from reading these marvellous stories and poems. In this great, sacred landscape the country is speaking through all of these many different voices and surely demonstrates how the land of the ancestors and its people continues to shape and help grow a sense of maturity and strength in the literature that comes from those living this close to the land. Fishtails in the dust is the assured measure in the scales of weighing the tender, forthright and ambiguous state of our humanity in Australia today. Read it well, and treasure the great love to be found in this strong and beautiful literature from the people who work, live and write in Central Australia.Alexis Wright, author of Carpentaria

ISBN: 9780975110935