Robert Skinner

Robert Skinner was born and raised on the Adelaide plains. His first book, I’d Rather Not (Black Inc., 2023), won the inaugural John Clarke Prize for Humour Writing, after the judges misunderstood his finely wrought work of tragedy. He currently lives in Melbourne.

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Cut flowers

Plants climbed all over each other. Everywhere I looked were bees, butterflies, hoverflies, spinebills, rainbow lorikeets… Some of them (the lorikeets) were tearing apart my money makers right in front of me. I opened a beer. Listen: we can’t all be captains of industry. Isn’t it enough just to grow flowers?

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