Pick up some Baggage.
Humankind carries the past as invisible baggage. Thirteen brilliant writers explore this, looking at Australia's cultural...
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Dec 29, 2010
Bruno
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13 authors gathered to map the zeitgeist of a country, words bending reality in an effort to show the world through multicultural lenses. Such search for the ethos, the collective culture of a people, is the raison d'etre of Baggage, Gillian Polack's newest anthology, released late 2010 by Eneit Press.
Each and all of the authors were given free reign to discuss the process which had made Australia the place it is, and what it really means to be australian. Mapping out the cultural he More...
Each and all of the authors were given free reign to discuss the process which had made Australia the place it is, and what it really means to be australian. Mapping out the cultural he More...
Mar 23, 2011
Mary
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4.5 stars.
Beautiful, beautiful anthology of short stories with an sff element to each. Highly recommended. I particularly enjoyed the stories by Kaaron Warren, Lucy Sussex and Jennifer Fallon, but they were all good - occasionally harrowing, maybe, but also courageous, quirky and fun in many instances.
What does it mean to be an Australian, or a New Zealander? There are no easy answers presented in this anthology, just a refreshingly unique take on themes of displacement and b
Beautiful, beautiful anthology of short stories with an sff element to each. Highly recommended. I particularly enjoyed the stories by Kaaron Warren, Lucy Sussex and Jennifer Fallon, but they were all good - occasionally harrowing, maybe, but also courageous, quirky and fun in many instances.
What does it mean to be an Australian, or a New Zealander? There are no easy answers presented in this anthology, just a refreshingly unique take on themes of displacement and b
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