carmel bird
@carmelbird
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Novelist... https://t.co/XLqKN08y04
Australia
Joined August 2009
'What is a critic, anyway, in the age of content… It’s maddening because if you know where, how, and why to look, Australia has some of the most exciting literary criticism going at the moment…' Following @marygarden's piece, here's Patrick Marlborough: https://t.co/cakyuAU3vk
meanjin.com.au
I don’t review Australian books because I am a coward and a dunce. It’s as simple as that. To me, reviewing an Australian book feels like stumbling into a Mexican standoff wearing a suicide vest: t…
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Terrific review of Love Letter to Lola by @carmelbird 'air of whimsical charm' @SpinelessWonder
smh.com.au
Exploring the borderlands between art and life and a devastating love story.
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@marygarden @mumbletwits @carmelbird @australian Guessing if you are a book reviewer you should probably avoid reading other book reviewers
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The Heart is a Star review in The Oz very similar to earlier one in Better Reading, cut & paste going on here, as well as the mention of @carmelbird Love Letter Lola vs Books and Publishing mentioned in today's oz. "Resembles" @betterreadingau
https://t.co/IjVpROCJs5
betterreading.com.au
Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She’s juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating marriage, her young kids and a needy lover. And most particularly she’s managing her histrionically...
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This is not good enough. I spend hours even days writing and crafting book reviews. So not only Love Letter to Lola, but Heart is a Star, and also Feast but I've had a long day so will do tomorrow. I have my own story to tell, too. This is theft or laziness, whatever @carmelbird
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Love Letter To Lola is my new collection of short fiction published by Spineless Wonders. Many of the stories are concerned with extinction of species and change of climate.
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A wonderful day @shawliterary – two authors on the 2023 @_milesfranklin longlist! So very proud of the huge talents that are @kassabyumna and @adamouston! https://t.co/OdhTSxcOID
#TheLovers #Waypoints @ultimopress @puncherwattmann #MilesFranklin2023
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.@claremabey reads all of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, & comes up with a top 20…
thespinoff.co.nz
Revisiting the work of the short story master / high school English curriculum mainstay.
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Great to see Adam’s extraordinary novel still being appreciated: if it’s not on some prize lists this year, we are doomed!
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Not what I was expecting to find at the Berlin secondhand bookstore…
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"If you're looking for an OZ crime thriller that's not another standard outback noir iteration then this is it. It's @a_waugh's first novel and it's riveting." Always a personal thrill for me when Peter rates one of my books, & of course he's not wrong here!
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“I also love the idea of writing as a kind of weaving, or quilting. In latin, the word text is derived from the past tense of the Latin, textus, which is a form of past tense of texo, ‘I weave’.” @grillzoid on the occasion of her Stella longlisting
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This novel is a glorious creation, a singing gift. The reading mind is transported to a wider world: guided, illuminated and nourished. “All and everywhere is richly connected”, held together by “glistening threads”. @carmelbird on The Bell of the World in The Saturday Paper
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Happy publication to Gregory Day and The Bell of the World. Ferny and Sarah are two my favourite characters in Oz Lit and hoping they become your friends too.
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Just arrived at the transit lounge, advance copies of Gregory Day’s beautiful new novel The Bell of the World, out March 2023.
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https://t.co/EGbStIHxkb Beautifully perceptive review at Whispering Gums of Telltale by Carmel Bird. Thanks to tireless literary readers the more in-depth book reviews are invariably in the on-line space these days.
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Not many people change the world. Carmen Callil did. I loved her in person and admired her without limit. She lit a candle where she might have blamed the dark.
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Congratulations from all at Transit Lounge to Subhash Jaireth on Spinoza's Overcoat winning the ACT Book of the Year this evening. We are thrilled!
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