by NRB | 25 Apr 2017 | Fiction |
John Kinsella’s short stories reveal flashes of beauty amid the bleakness. ‘They were close enough to the dregs of the river to have a water rat dead on their dead lawn.’ So far, so ugly – the opening line of the 18th story in this collection of 27. By number 18...
by NRB | 18 Aug 2015 | Fiction |
One of Australia’s foremost poets brings inventiveness and economy to this clever collection of microfictions. Crow’s Breath, John Kinsella’s new collection of short stories, opens with an uncommonly wise eight-year-old walking home from the school bus stop when his...
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