Following on from the success of her award-winning fiction debut, Heat and Light, Ellen van Neerven announces herself as a talented poet with this luscious collection. Moving between places and cultures, Comfort Food explores identity, sovereignty and the restless quest for love…
This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of "Australian literature". The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works no…