Cirrus@Austlit

'We rarely turn to poetry to parse historical truths, preferring to dissect ‘non-fiction’ narratives about the past, only accepting truth in the form of inviolable fact. Manisha Anjali’s debut poetry collection, Naag Mountain, envisions dream and truth in tandem. Her work testifies to poetry’s power to resist propaganda—with lush and mythic imagery, she retells stories of forced removal and oppression in her community’s vocabulary.' (Introduction)   

'A mute girl’s unexpected arrival. A small town yet to reckon with closeted skeletons. A whirlwind of fictions, accusations and speculations. The Desert Knows Her Name is another addition to Australia’s burgeoning genre of outback-noir eco-fiction, such as Aoife Clifford’s When We Fall and Jane Harper’s The Dry and Force of Nature. Hills’ rural setting is artfully lush but enveloped in a distrusting atmosphere, paralleling the small towns familiar to Australian crime fiction.' (Introduction)