Bryant Apolonio Bryant Apolonio i(12230886 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Melbourne Scheherazade Bryant Apolonio , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , September 2024;
— Review of The Degenerates Raeden Richardson , 2024 single work novel

'Raeden Richardson’s debut novel has faith in the power of storytelling. It begins in 1976 Bombay with Somnath the shoeshine, a Dalit who dreams of wealth and of sons to pass it down to. But Somnath is a victim of ‘the Emergency’, Indira Gandhi’s totalitarian crackdown on civil liberties. He becomes one of thousands of impoverished Indian citizens sterilised by the government in a drive, they claimed, to curb population growth. Somnath eventually leaves India and settles in Australia, running a chop shop on the outskirts of Melbourne.'
1 All Persons Living or Dead Bryant Apolonio , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 68 no. 1 2023; (p. 119-126)
1 Books Roundup Ellen Cregan , Danny Sun Baulch , Beau Windon , Bryant Apolonio , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , June 2022;
— Review of The Eulogy Jackie Bailey , 2022 single work novel ; Homesickness : A Memoir Janine Mikosza , 2022 single work autobiography ; This All Come Back Now 2022 anthology short story ; Basin Scott McCulloch , 2022 single work novel
1 [Review] Sadvertising Bryant Apolonio , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , March 2022;
— Review of Sadvertising Ennis Cehic , 2022 selected work short story
1 Independencia Bryant Apolonio , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , December no. 27 2021;
1 Tunnels Bryant Apolonio , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: New Australian Fiction 2021 2021; (p. 29-44)
1 Bad Weather Bryant Apolonio , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , September no. 43 2019; (p. 39-42) Collisions : Fictions of the Future : An Anthology of Australian Writers of Colour 2020; (p. 18-27) 'Navotas Port. Trawlers cut through seafoam as they moor. Sun-pruned dockmen swarm the transoms, drawing nets up onto iron decks. The boy could smell the copra and sponge even from here, at the top of the coconut tree he’d climbed. Wind sends the trunk forward and back in loping excursions. Like a crow’s nest, the boy imagines, like the first Spaniards sailing their carracks into the Bay. They’d have followed the southwest trade winds through brothlike fog and known that their wandering had ended. (It doesn’t occur to him that he’s looking the other way. More likely this was what some centuries-old hill-tribesmen saw. What they felt. Bewilderment and wonder and then, well, fear? Despair? The heat of fire, a burial somewhere shallow and unmarked. But he’s only a kid, let him have his fantasies.) Gulls fire slantways across the concrete berm. The boy’s father has materialised, slumped and bird-boned, at the base of the tree. What the hell is Child doing up there? It’s time to work.' (Publication abstract)
1 Collision Bryant Apolonio , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 229 2017; (p. 53-58)
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