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Nicolette Stasko

Nicolette Stasko won the Anne Elder Award with her first collection Abundance (1992) and was shortlisted for the NSW Kenneth Slessor Prize and the National Book Awards. She has published four more collections (including Glass Cathedrals: New and Selected, SALT 2006) and three chapbooks - most recently under rats (Vagabond 2012). She is currently working on her next book, a detective novel and a non-fiction about art, Orientalism and Morocco.

Sendai

I Leave me I am late in my life and have seen many summers my mind now is only wreckage and waste once houses stood and people teemed a busy anthill watched over by the quiet dead rice paddies glowed …

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Portrait of Vincenzo d’Orti

from The Invention of Everyday Life Vincenzo d’Orti is a man who smells. Day in, day out, waking or sleeping his nostrils register the world and convey it to his simple brain. Like many, Vincenzo moves between thinking his life …

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A Plot

from The Invention of Everyday Life The novelist is feeling pleased. Having altered somewhat the original emphasis, his novel is going well for a change. It is now mainly about a young woman who becomes a recluse after her lover …

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Glasses of Water

from The Invention of Everyday Life The concerto on the record player stops. Marina is now dreaming of a trip she took to Milan with an orchestra — the long walk out of the city into the villages and fields. …

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