Book description
Dachshund droids, mad crones, shapeshifting children, a plethora of witches, dragonstalkers, familiars, slithering eels and, of course, bats, flit and fly through these pages, aided and abetted by Kathleen Jenningsās deft and inspired pencil drawings. Stray Bats is a glorious miscellany of vignettes based on poems by Australian women. Whileā¦
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Margo Lanaganās mini-collection Stray Bats is an exceptional showcase of refined writingāless is always more. Powerful bite-size vignettes in this dark illustrated miscellany of micro fiction and prose poetry encompass rhyme, beauty, and something most sinister. Offering up constellations, maidens in flight, familiars, hag hunters, vixen wives, and spirit girls, this kind of dark, fantastical writing and the ghosts of its graphics haunt you for a super long timeā¦
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