Featured in
- Published 20260505
- ISBN: 978-1-923213-19-7
- Extent: 196pp
- Paperback, eBook, PDF

Already a subscriber? Sign in here
If you are an educator or student wishing to access content for study purposes please contact us at griffithreview@griffith.edu.au
Share article
More from author
Björk in concert
FictionThe wind feels strange on his face. He hasn’t stepped outside in too long. He hesitates in the doorway. He really doesn’t have time for this. He needs to write that last chapter. He needs to finish what he has promised. What separates humans from everything else is our urge to create. He turns back towards his computer but then he is outside and locking the door and it feels like he has no agency over this. His body wants to go for a walk and so he must walk. He catches a glimpse of something bright poking up through the mulch at the base of a tree. A mushroom. Then suddenly they all come into focus. Mushrooms everywhere. Mushrooms on tree trunks like little shelves for fairy books, mushrooms in the mud and mushrooms in among the grass. There are even little net-like things around red stalks. Weird Cronenberg mushrooms, half fungus, half machine.
More from this edition
Endless summer
Non-fiction IN A PERFECT world, every season would be summer – a time of seemingly endless promise. At least, that’s how I remember the summers...
Mushrooms
Poetry In the dark, out of damp black loam, they’ve sprung back in their bonnets and straw hats. Pale arms dusted by the moon. Pale faces without weariness. ‘Explain yourself,’...
The creative arts in a time of fragmentation
Non-fiction IN 1980, THEN–Prime Minister of the UK Margaret Thatcher coined the phrase ‘There Is No Alternative’ (TINA). Twelve years later, in 1992, Francis Fukuyama...