Cirrus@Austlit

This document gives information on David Milroy and Geoffrey Narkle and includes the plays first performance, author's notes and characters. The extract begins with Kid Dynamite and George entering the ring.

'Poppy Nwosu has made an art form of the teen romance, with realistic characters and dialogue that capture that aching self-consciousness and dramatic up and down of adolescent life. Making friends with Alice Dyson (reviewed in English in Australia 54.2 (2019) was the first and Alice, its conscientious protagonist, works hard with not much in her life but study. A brief dance with school troublemaker, Teddy Taualai, goes viral and the reader watches with delight as Alice's initial rebuffs slowly morph into a dance as their friendship grows and changes. Reputation and stereotyping are part of the appeal of this entertaining novel with bullying, identity and anxiety hovering in the wings.' (Introduction)

''Moving Day' captures slanted light, anxiety, understanding and love amid the minutiae of a relationship. There is so much intensity in these poems, such vivid imagery such caustic hurt, such clarity about great loss that they drill down into the reader. Drop bear is poetry that stays with you, beauty and power, anger and wit, pain and love, long after you have closed its pages.' (Publication abstract)

'Despite being fresh in our minds, the case of Belle Gibson is still compelling. A self-styled “wellness warrior” who built a business by hoodwinking millions into believing she had cured terminal brain cancer, Gibson’s fraudulent house of cards was...' (Introduction)