by NRB | 14 Mar 2023 | Fiction |
Gregory Day’s new novel explores the sublime through the life of a young woman in his beloved Otways. In the essay ‘Otway Taenarum’ in his previous book, Words are Eagles (2022), Day recounts how, at a formative age, he looked for ‘imaginative texts...
by NRB | 5 Jul 2022 | Non-fiction |
Gregory Day’s writing is inextricably bound with the landscape in this collection. Words are Eagles is a tonic selection of Gregory Day’s various non-fiction published in Australian journals, magazines and newspapers over recent years (roughly the period 2015 to...
by NRB | 11 Jun 2020 | Fiction |
The author of Archipelago of Souls explores a life spent with the sand dunes of the Great Ocean Road in A Sand Archive. Gregory Day’s fifth novel is a confluence of nature and culture set in France and Australia, on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. Day is a writer, poet...
by NRB | 8 Oct 2015 | Fiction |
Post-traumatic stress is at the heart of Gregory Day’s lyrical and profound fourth novel. Wesley Cress has spent the Second World War as a soldier under British command on the Greek island of Crete, home of the ancient Minoan civilisation. After his return to...
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