Title:
Conversations I've never had
Author:
ISBN:
9781925162028
Call Number:
ANF A821.4 MAL
Publication Information:
Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Press, 2015
Copyright:
©2015
Physical Description:
81 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
Contents note: I -- The path to the dam -- To Robert Thompson -- Sundays -- Donnelly River, 13 -- Fourteen -- Asphodel -- Sixteen -- Shark days -- Bloodlust -- Eighteen -- Concessional: Cassandra to Helen -- Pine -- After a girl goes missing -- Lust -- Things we learn from our Father -- II -- Things I missed about Cervantes while in Cambridge -- Holiday -- Back in Perth -- Medea to Jason -- For my Lady M -- Lament for Cervantes -- The fish -- Marriage -- Eurydice speaks -- Aftershock -- III -- Generation Why -- Leonora 2010 -- Gendericide -- Easter up the Gascoyne -- TV pastoral -- At the Ballarat Art Gallery -- The break -- Hector -- Living waters -- A380 letter -- IV -- Writing to Perth from Houston -- North of the river -- Shark nights -- Hurricane season -- Town -- Tacit knowledge -- Homesick song -- Family rule -- Terroir -- You will wear white -- How I spent my 18th year
Geographic Term:
Summary:
In her debut collection, award-winning talent Caitlin Maling explores coming of age in contemporary Australia. Writing from Perth, Houston and Cambridge, Maling's early years to adulthood are told through the lens of the Australian landscape. For young settler Australians this is a place that both defines and undermines identity
Format:
Books
Language:
English
