'Nora Heysen struggled to emerge from her father Hans’s creative shadow, writes Anne Loxley'
'A wide range of scientists, farmers and writers argue we each should do something to protect the world that sustains us all, even if others don’t, writes Geordie Williamson' (Introduction)
'Gerald Murnane’s old/new novel puts him in the company of James Joyce, writes James Ley' (Introduction)
'The body becomes an island in Peggy Frew’s third novel, one submerged beneath the weight of grief and unhappiness.' (Introduction)
'What an odd thing it is that Gerald Murnane, the great Australian minimalist who modulates the monotonies of his flawless sentences the way Rothko modulates his shades of colour, the 80-year-old Australian writer touted as an outsider (but less so now) for the Nobel Prize in Literature, should produce such a strange yet revealing book of poems.' (Introduction)
'You can gauge the success of a genre when its shorthand enters the zeitgeist. For a few years now, “cli-fi” has been growing as writers harness the devastating possibilities of climate change as a backbone for their fiction.' (Introduction)
