'Ronnie Scott founded a high-profile literary magazine at 21. Now 34, his debut novel is a social comedy set in Melbourne’s gay community.'
'The sounds of a baby in need can be doubly difficult for a mother who suffered neglect or abuse as a child. Treatment can break the cycle of attachment trauma, writes Anne Buist'
'Hearts and Bones is the feature debut of Ben Lawrence, son of Ray Lawrence, a director who has made only three films, all of them close to masterpieces: Bliss (1985), based on Peter Carey’s novel, Lantana (2001), based on a play by Andrew Bovell, who wrote the script, and Jindabyne (2006), based on a Raymond Carver short story.' (Introduction)
'Doctor and writer Peter Goldsworthy on how we can take some of the lessons of lockdown back into normal life.'
'The great Irish poet Eavan Boland, who died on April 27, once observed that when female poets seek to write about motherhood, they are met with a dilemma: there is “a category of experience and expression which is poetic and all the rest is ordinary and therefore inadmissable”.' (Introduction)
