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Emerging Critics 2020

Emerging Critics 2020 Review: Katie Dobbson Catherine Noske
  • The Salt Madonna by Catherine Noske Picador Australia
    368pp
    Published February 2020
    ISBN 9781760784249

More Story Than Girl

If Lindsay’s novel was as much a knowing pastiche of the lost girl narrative as a compulsive repetition, the latest addition to the canon, Catherine Noske’s debut novel The Salt Madonna, quickly announces itself as a self-conscious work of genre revision.‘ Once upon a time, a girl called Mary lived on an island called Chesil,’ the framing narrator Hannah Mulvey tells us, before confessing, pages later, that Mary is not her real name.

Aug. 2020 • Australian literature • Fiction • Emerging Critics 2020
Emerging Critics 2020 Review: Prithvi Varatharajanon Caitlin Maling
  • Fish Song by Caitlin Maling Freemantle Press
    128pp
    Published 2019
    ISBN 9781925591484

The Ash of Song after the Flame

Fish Song is essayistic in its purpose, returning to questions about human existence in the world, adding and taking away from its answers, shaping and reshaping a response.

Jun. 2020 • Australian literature • Poetry • Emerging Critics 2020

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