Ashley Hay
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Ashley Hay is an Australian author of fiction and nonfiction. She has written over twenty-five essays and short stories. In 2016, she won the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her work, The forest at the edge of time. It was first published in the Australian Book Review and will also toon meer be included in the anthology The Best Australian Science Writing 2016. Her novels include The Railwayman's Wife which won the 2013 Colin Roderick Prize and the People's Choice Award at the 2014 NSW Premier's Prize, The Body in the Clouds, and A Hundred Small Lessons. Her nonfiction books include Museum (with Robyn Stacey), Herbarium (with Robyn Syacey), Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions, and The Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron. She was the editor of Best Australian Science Writing 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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- Ashley Hay is the author of four books of non-fiction - The Secret: The strange marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron and Gum: The story of eucalypts and their champions, and Herbarium and Museum with the visual artist Robyn Stacey. A former literary editor of The Bulletin, her essays and short stories have also appeared in anthologies and journals including Brothers and Sisters, The Monthly, Heat and The Griffith Review. The Body in the Clouds is her first novel and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 'Best First Book' (South-East Asia and Pacific region) and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
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A Hundred Small Lessons: A Novel door Ashley Hay
A very emotional roller coaster of a read, it shows the pressures and realities experienced having a baby and how small decisions can have huge consequences
>Such an arresting image on the cover of the latest edition of the Griffith Review! It makes me think immediately of the Challenger tragedy and the risks taken when mere mortals try to escape their earthbound existence...
As editor Ashley Hay says in her introduction to Escape Routes, 'getting away' has come to have a loaded ambivalence in our new normal. This is the blurb from the publisher's website (where you can buy it and other issues in the archive):
I've decided to focus first on the poetry in this edition. 'Soap' by Jodie Lea Martire is a startling set of verses about an artist called Walter Inglis Anderson who apparently escaped from the Mississippi State Insane Asylum in 1939.
He takes some soap and makes art with it against a red brick wall as he slides to the freedom close below. Do have a look at some of his work at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art and consider the circumstances which led him to make this perilous escape.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2021/12/28/griffith-review-74-escape-routes-edited-by-a...… (meer)
As editor Ashley Hay says in her introduction to Escape Routes, 'getting away' has come to have a loaded ambivalence in our new normal. This is the blurb from the publisher's website (where you can buy it and other issues in the archive):
Sometimes, we all need to get away…
Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes plots the course of our daydreams, our transformations and our jailbreaks. It takes us across borders and through open minds to places once out of reach, lighting out for the territory to access new worlds.
Edited by Ashley Hay, Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes features the winners of our Emerging Voices competition – Delcan Fry, Alison Gibbs, Vijay Khurana and Andrew Roff – plus new work from Behrouz Boochani, Madeleine Watts, Kim Scott, Peggy Frew and Beejay Silcox, among many others.
I've decided to focus first on the poetry in this edition. 'Soap' by Jodie Lea Martire is a startling set of verses about an artist called Walter Inglis Anderson who apparently escaped from the Mississippi State Insane Asylum in 1939.
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hold, he prayed, and
wrenched the sheet into a rope.
heft, and twist.
heft, and twist.
tie a knot when the fear is greatest;
loop when thinking of elegance. (p.25)
He takes some soap and makes art with it against a red brick wall as he slides to the freedom close below. Do have a look at some of his work at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art and consider the circumstances which led him to make this perilous escape.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2021/12/28/griffith-review-74-escape-routes-edited-by-a...… (meer)
I bought Griffith Review #66, The Light Ascending, because it's their annual Novella Project edition, and it's good value, with four novellas, short fiction, a memoir and poetry. It's ideal for reading during #NovNov (Novellas in November).
I read the first novella with a dawning sense of horror. Written by Julianne Van Loon, set in Perth, and titled 'Instructions for a steep decline', it's the one mentioned in the blurb as being about 'a woman experiencing a post-accident coma [who] ebbs back and forth through the currents of her life'. She's riding a bike to work when something throws her off balance and she ends up in the river. For a good deal of this novella, the reader doesn't know whether she has survived, or been permanently damaged by the collision and her long immersion in the water. As she drifts in and out of reality, she muses on her marriage and children, her discomfort with the values implicit in her job, and the awful experience of her friend Ying and how she somehow transcended it. I've read Julianne Van Loon's fiction before, and it's powerful, confronting stuff.
'The Market Seller' by Holly Ringland is confronting too, but in a different way. The young woman who sells candies at the market seems familiar to Emily:
The narrative perspective alternates between Emily and Eve, revealing sibling rivalry and a young woman's curious revenge.
I haven't read Holly Ringland's fiction before, but I know that she was nominated for the 2020 Dublin Literary Award for The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, reviewed by both Jennifer and Theresa.
'Cleave' by Keren Heenan is heartbreaking. Heenan is a prolific writer of short stories and has been published widely but I think you'd have to be a subscriber to literary journals of one sort or another to have come across her work. 'Cleave' is an impressive representation of three misfits who've been sleeping rough but think that better days are ahead when Parker inherits his father's house.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2021/11/14/griffith-review-66-the-light-ascending-edite...… (meer)
I read the first novella with a dawning sense of horror. Written by Julianne Van Loon, set in Perth, and titled 'Instructions for a steep decline', it's the one mentioned in the blurb as being about 'a woman experiencing a post-accident coma [who] ebbs back and forth through the currents of her life'. She's riding a bike to work when something throws her off balance and she ends up in the river. For a good deal of this novella, the reader doesn't know whether she has survived, or been permanently damaged by the collision and her long immersion in the water. As she drifts in and out of reality, she muses on her marriage and children, her discomfort with the values implicit in her job, and the awful experience of her friend Ying and how she somehow transcended it. I've read Julianne Van Loon's fiction before, and it's powerful, confronting stuff.
'The Market Seller' by Holly Ringland is confronting too, but in a different way. The young woman who sells candies at the market seems familiar to Emily:
There was something about her: the way she took her time, as if movement caused her physical pain; how she shook as she smoothed a piece of tattered velvet over her trestle table. She paused, then took a tentative step into a thin piece of sunlight, her trembling hands outstretched for warmth. When she tilted her chin upwards and her hair fell away, revealing her face, Emily froze. It was the kind of movement that made the world slow down to such a pace that tiny details — her hollow eyes, the way her shoulders curled inwards — were sharp enough to prick your skin. (p. 85)
The narrative perspective alternates between Emily and Eve, revealing sibling rivalry and a young woman's curious revenge.
I haven't read Holly Ringland's fiction before, but I know that she was nominated for the 2020 Dublin Literary Award for The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, reviewed by both Jennifer and Theresa.
'Cleave' by Keren Heenan is heartbreaking. Heenan is a prolific writer of short stories and has been published widely but I think you'd have to be a subscriber to literary journals of one sort or another to have come across her work. 'Cleave' is an impressive representation of three misfits who've been sleeping rough but think that better days are ahead when Parker inherits his father's house.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2021/11/14/griffith-review-66-the-light-ascending-edite...… (meer)
A very mystical style of writing with a mounting suspense that is very nuanced and carved into everyday actions.
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