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Tom Flood Tom Flood i(A505 works by)
Born: Established: 1955 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Countercharacter 4 Tom Flood , 2007 single work short story historical fiction
— Appears in: Salt Magazine , no. 1 (New Series) 2007;
1 The Old Trails Tom Flood , 2001 single work short story
1 Countercharacter No. 3 Tom Flood , 2001 single work extract
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 61 no. 2 2001; (p. 100-105)

An extract from then-unpublished novel Septimus Grout. No subsequent publication of this novel has been traced.
1 Tom Flood: 'Oceana Fine' Tom Flood , 2000 extract novel (Oceana Fine)
— Appears in: Mixed Grain: Celebrating 20 Years of 'The Australian' Vogel Literary Award 2000; (p. 65-71)
1 Apostrophe Tom Flood , 1996 single work short story
— Appears in: Risks 1996; (p. 169-183)
1 Saying Father Tom Flood , 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: Family Pictures 1994; (p. 1-21)
1 Birdland Tom Flood , 1993 single work short story
— Appears in: The Book of Poets on the Heath 1993; (p. 23-27)
1 1 Model Citizen Tom Flood , 1993 single work drama
1 First Light, First Light, Touch a Star and Catch as Might (from a Work-in-Progress) Tom Flood , 1993 extract
— Appears in: Picador New Writing 1993; (p. 199-210)
1 Tattoo Tom Flood , 1991 single work short story
— Appears in: Millennium : Time-Pieces by Australian Writers 1991; (p. 104-110)
1 Deluge of Memory Tom Flood , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Editions , June-July no. 11 1991; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Fineflour Gillian Mears , 1990 selected work short story
1 A Taste of Writing : Word of Mouth Tom Flood , 1990 single work short story humour
— Appears in: The Independent Monthly , December-January vol. 2 no. 6 1990-1991; (p. 41-42)
2 30 y separately published work icon Oceana Fine Tom Flood , North Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1989 Z120844 1989 single work novel

'Beneath a vast constructed/deconstructed landscape (both human and geographic) lies a labyrinth of disused mineshafts. It is a landscape in which vast saline lakes suddenly appear overnight, in which wheat babies disappear into wheat fields, in which lizards are mistaken for rocks, in which a huge grain silo becomes a cathedral and a gold front-end loader the angel of the apocalypse. It is a place where history repeats/mirrors itself and is populated by doppelganagers and we find ourselves following the after-image of the phosphene as though it was a manuscript hoping for illumination.

'The book deals with multiplicity of perception - through history/memory, national mythologies, families and writing (blood and ink), puzzles and their reasons - which might be said to be their execution.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Snapshots and Memory's Alchemy Tom Flood , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 11-12 November 1989; (p. 7)
1 Devegetation Tom Flood , 1986 single work short story
— Appears in: Australian Short Stories , no. 13 1986; (p. 56-63)
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