Featured in

- Published 20211102
- ISBN: 978-1-922212-65-8
- Extent: 264pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

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

On ‘Hotel Sorrento’, by Hannie Rayson
GR Online HANNIE RAYSON'S WELL-loved Hotel Sorrento, which premiered onstage in 1991 and was made into a feature film in 1995, explored some immediately identifiable terrain...
More from this edition

Emily presents
FictionMEG IS ALLOWED onto the tarmac to watch the unloading. It is a vast, empty space at this time of night, except for the...

Americano Sal
FictionIt was always busy there in Palermo. During a snow shower I’d sit in the cafés, small corner net connections. Sometimes the weather was a little heavy – I’d kick my boots clean of ice at the entrance, umbrella heavy with sleet. The man you paid to use the internet would be singing in Farsi; a woman would speak in hushed tones in the cubicle. Sometimes not so hushed. Talking to her family on the other side of the world. Where maybe it was snowing, too. And together they could listen to each other. Together in the snow they could talk.

My mother disliked the sea
PoetryMy mother disliked the sea after we arrived in Australia. She would say, ‘Four weeks on a ship. Waves. Waves. That’s all it was... And the horizon never...