'As a young journalist, I wrote a lot about trauma. The federal Sex Discrimination Act was less than a decade old when I first joined a newsroom in the early 1990s and its passage helped broaden the public discussion of intimate crimes such as sexual assault and domestic violence, previously considered verboten in polite society.' (Introduction)
'While it was TS Eliot who famously described poetry as “not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality”, it was the great Portuguese modernist poet Fernando Pessoa, who achieved this escape most fully.' (Introduction)
'The creative talent behind Rake is at it again with another original series, this time set against the British atom bomb tests at Maralinga in the 1950s.'