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1 2 y separately published work icon Sign Colin Dray , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2018 12247544 2018 single work novel

'An extraordinary novel told from the perspective of ten-year-old Sam, who is recovering from an operation that leaves him unable to speak. Sam lives with his mother, sister Katie and Aunt Dettie, his father's sister, who helps to look after them. His father is notably absent, and has been for some time, but when their mother begins to date again, Aunt Dettie reacts very badly. After an unexpected phone call, Aunt Dettie packs Sam and Katie into the backseat of her car and tells them that she's taking them to Perth to be reunited with their father. As Dettie drives the children across Australia in the middle of a sweltering and dangerous bushfire season, her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, and the children begin to realise that there is something very wrong.

'Voiceless, Sam can only watch helplessly as the family trip becomes a smoke-filled nightmare.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Harwood's Monster: "Walter Lehmann" and the Embodied Subject Colin Dray , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 27 no. 1 2013; (p. 61-68)

'Dray talks about Gwen Hardwood's poetry. To say that the poet Gwen Hardwood was a prolific writer early in her career would be a vast understatement; in truth she was several. Employing a number of artfully crafted personas, all with his or her own distinct style and agenda, Harwood became so deft at employing these masks that each existed long enough to be established as a new voice in Australian poetry before the revelation of their true identity dissolved them–occasionally with some ironic complication–back into her greater canon.' (Editor's abstract)

1 Curtain and Glove Colin Dray , 2006 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 65 no. 3 2006; (p. 224-231)
1 Watch Colin Dray , 2005 single work short story
— Appears in: Regret 2005; (p. 32-41)
1 The Golden Fish : On Reading J. S. Harry Colin Dray , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 22 no. 2 2005; (p. 192-204)
1 Hansel and Gretel i "My sister hated Hansel and Gretel.", Colin Dray , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Scarp , October no. 35 1999; (p. 64)
1 Nyctitropism Colin Dray , 1999 single work short story
— Appears in: Scarp , October no. 35 1999; (p. 34-37)
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