
Out of Place
prose poems and microfiction
Spineless Wonders (Publisher)
Published on 2. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
130 pages
978-1-925052-22-0 (ISBN)
Description
These are stories rendered in miniature and moments inscribed with precise focus. Australia's best microwordsmiths offer journeys in words that will take you somewhere surprising. A stolen glimpse of a father dancing alone to music; Gothic landscapes on the New South Wales coast; incredible spectrums in the colours of butterflies; Aussie cricket and climate change; remembrances of an exiled home land or the awkward sexual politics at a funeral.
These stories capture delightful and unsettling moments of estrangement, when the new becomes familiar and the ordinary, sublime.
'With the unsettling perfection of the miniature, this is a collection of sparkling treasures - each one demanding to be held up examined, re-examined and then marvelled over.' GEORGIA BLAIN
'The stories in Out of Place are like a constellation of dancing fireflies: brief, beautiful and completely dazzling.' JAMES BRADLEY
Includes work by Ceridwen Dovey, Rjurik Davidson, Tania Hershman, Roberta Lowing, Angela Meyer, John Tranter and many others.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Australia
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
156 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-925052-22-0 (9781925052220)
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Kirsten Tranter is the author of The Legacy, which was selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Debut Novel of the year, shortlisted for the ABIA Literary Fiction award, the ALS Gold Medal, the Indie Debut Fiction award, and longlisted for the Miles Franklin award. She grew up in Sydney, lived in New York from 1998-2006, where she completed a PhD at Rutgers University, and now lives in Berkeley and teaches at UC Berkeley. Linda Godfrey is the coeditor of several collections of microlit, including Flashing the Square, Small Wonder, and Writing to the Edge.