by Rayne Allinson (Foreword by)
The eleven best entries from the Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2022 as selected by Meg Bignell, Annie Warburton and Rayne Allinson
In the words of Irish Booker-prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, "When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea." Because of their liminality, islands can represent many contrary things. Isolation and connection. Permanence and change. They might be easily charted on a map, but something about them remains hidden, mysterious, unreachable. "Islands are metaphors of the heart", Jeannette Winterson writes, "no matter what poet says otherwise." Rayne Allinson
Number of Pages: 112
Dimensions: 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: July 07, 2022