{"id":2125,"date":"2014-09-29T07:47:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2014-09-30T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T10:31:08","slug":"lizard-skin-anthology-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2125","title":{"rendered":"Lizard Skin Anthology 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lsp-2-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2126\" alt=\"lsp 2 cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lsp-2-cover.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 speaking of small presses\u2026 I went to the launch of Lizard Skin Press\u2019 latest short story anthology at The Coffee Pot in Adelaide recently. This is an interesting diverse collection of (mostly South Australian) writers. I\u2019ll just talk about the personal stand-outs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Khail Jureidini\u2019s autobiographical (he told me later) <i>unfinished symphony<\/i> is more like a 13 page prose-poem than a short story with Khail\u2019s wonderful invented vocabulary and wordplay \u2013 although more narrative-driven than his usual poetics. There\u2019s no real resolution \u2013 but life\u2019s like that isn\u2019t it? Khail\u2019s life reminds me of Laura Hillenbrand\u2019s\u00a0<i>Unbroken<\/i>, <i>Forrest Gump<\/i> and Kafka\u2019s <i>The Trial<\/i> all rolled into one. He just happened to be in Darwin on the night of Cyclone Tracy and spent time in the infamous Chelmsford \u2018Deep Sleep Clinic\u2019, although these are only alluded to in <i>unfinished symphony<\/i> (material for future short stories perhaps?)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Pryor\u2019s <i>The Girl in the Cold<\/i> has an interesting twist. Sharon Kernot\u2019s <i>A Vanilla Spider<\/i> is chilling. The horror is understated and the implied threat is consequently even more powerful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other favorites were <i>Alex<\/i> by Alex Matthews, <i>Promise<\/i> by Connie Berg and <i>Yesterday<\/i> by Juliet A Payne for their well-drawn characters and <i>Boy, falling<\/i> by Jane Turner Goldsmith for its empathy and strong internal dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Daniel Watson\u2019s <i>8 a.m<\/i>., a paean to the perfect breakfast and simple pleasures after hospitalization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are a few typos in the book (\u2018Blue Healer\u2019 really irritates the crap out of a pedant like me) but overall this is a great little collection attractively presented.<\/p>\n<p>May there be many more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u2026 speaking of small presses\u2026 I went to the launch of Lizard Skin Press\u2019 latest short story anthology at The Coffee Pot in Adelaide recently. This is an interesting diverse collection of (mostly South Australian) writers. I\u2019ll just talk &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2125\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}