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Praiseworthy

Alexis Wright

Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. Her first novel since The Swan Book and Carpentaria, it is a work which pushes allegory and language to its limits, a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage, and a fable for the end of days.

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Praiseworthy (hardcover edition)

Alexis Wright

The hardcover edition of Alexis Wright’s long-awaited new fiction book. The work has been described as ‘an abundant odyssey that contains a formidable vision of Australia’s future.…both urgent and deeply contemplated’ (The Age) and ‘monumental…a novel that spins a precious filament of hope that persistently tugs survival into sovereignty’ (Australian Book Review).

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New editions

Carpentaria

Alexis Wright

The new edition of Alexis Wright’s 2006 classic Carpentaria, an epic of the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. Winner of multiple literary awards, including the Miles Franklin, the novel teems with extraordinary characters – from the outcast saviour Elias Smith, to the fish-embalming king of time Norman Phantom – and is told in a form of storytelling both operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce.

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The Swan Book

Alexis Wright

The new edition of Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book, a novel set in a future in which Aboriginal peoples still live under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. First published in 2013, the book won the ALS Gold Medal and the Kate Challis RAKA Award, with the latter’s judges calling it ‘a sprawling, magnificent achievement, a remarkable imaginative vision of Australia as it was and is, and will be.’

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The latest HEAT

HEAT Series 3 Number 8 features art, poetry and prose by Xi Xi, Judith Beveridge, Patrick Pound, Cameron Hurst, Katerina Gibson and Paul Muldoon. Subscribe to HEAT now to receive Number 8 as your first issue, with more adventurous literary writing and art from Australia and around the world to come. Individual copies are also available for purchase from Giramondo and in select bookstores.

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Authors

Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson’s first collection, Among the Regulars, was shortlisted for the 2011 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry; in 2020 his collection Music Our Bodies Can’t Hold was shortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award. He has featured at literary events and arts festivals in Ireland, India, the USA and across Australia, and has co-edited disability-themed issues of the literary journals Southerly and Australian Poetry Journal. Andy Jackson works as a creative writing teacher and tutor for community organisations and universities.

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Gerald Murnane

Gerald Murnane is a recipient of an Emeritus Fellowship from the Australia Council, the Patrick White Literary Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Adelaide Festival Literature Award for Innovation and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. His last work of fiction, Border Districts, received the the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, was shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

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