AustLit

Author's note:

About the poem:

This descriptive poem is meant to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek. The stimulus for the poem was the lunch break during a whole day workshop.  Participants and presenters, including the novelist in question, lunched together, each exhibiting what they had brought to eat from home. I was struck by precise packaging of the novelist’s lunch, and the way the super-healthy contents of the lunch were laid out – in contrast to my own sloppily made and wrapped roll of salami, peanut paste and cheese.  This led me to wonder if the features of the lunch reflected the care, order and control with which the novelist approached the task of novel writing.