(Seamus Heaney: ‘Over here!’ Ted Hughes: ‘At your service.’) But Les Murray ( Les Murray – Selected Poems) wins out, purely for his thematic heft, not to mention those musket-hammer cormorants, the mayonnaise trunks, the liquorice of a newborn calf and the ''shredded mental kelp'' of his own bipolar interior. Poetry had to get a guernsey here, and so many poets vied for my fondness. Within this collection are some kryptonite essays on the refugee plight, alcoholism and human frailty – pearls in their own right. Yet this bad boy of cuisine could also drop his moue, roaming the globe as much as his own emotional range. Where Milne rejoices in innocence, Gill skewers bullshit and dishes out a feast of sapid sentences: "… the oysters were fat and firm and silky as a mermaid’s breast implant" and "medicinally iodine". Broken into earthy segments, from Uplands to Coastlands, this is an amplified glossary of a fading British vocabulary, where turdstool is a pile of manure, geeve is gauzy rain, and smeuse a rabbit-sized hole in a hedge. However, I’ve chosen Landmarks for its evocation of landscape and its grassroots dictionary. Instead:Īny of Robert Macfarlane’s books is sure to remedy cabin fever, so vividly does this Cambridge English professor depict nature. (Though there’s nothing like solving that final clue and feeling that buzz flood your brain.) Still, no puzzle books.
As addicted I am, especially now, hoping to conjure a fleeting sense of order, I skipped all puzzle books from my trio. Gill skewers bullshit and dishes out a feast of sapid sentences." Simon Schluterįirst rule: no puzzle books. His most recent book is Rewording the Brain (Allen & Unwin Australia).ĭavid Astle: "A.A.
'No puzzle books'ĭavid Astle is best known for his work creating word puzzles. Here David Astle, Heather Rose, Chris Hammer, Miranda Tapsell, Andy Griffiths and James Bradley reveal their choices.
We asked Australian authors about the books that bring them comfort. Maggie’s Going Nowhere, Rose Hartley’s debut novel published by Penguin Random House in 2020, is available from Dymocks, Amazon, Readings, Angus & Robertson, QBD, Robinsons, and Apple Books and the audiobook version narrated by Miranda Tapsell is available at Audible.With a long weekend in lockdown to look forward to, it's the perfect time to curl up with a good book.
0 kommentar(er)
