Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Night Sky with Exit Wounds'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.' New YorkerAn extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire and attends to them all with lines that feel

And will Friday ever get that first kiss with Ian

in the postcolonial Australian context

reflections or daily inspiration through the celebration of unique Australian flowers and the calming power of nature

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where the internal anatomy of the subject is portrayed

' Sunday Independent

The unease of these humanitarians about the morality of white settlement has not dissipated and their legacy informs current debates about reconciliation between black and white Australia

she brings only disappointment

Desperate to broker peace

She is the author of the novels Last Night in Montreal

Winner of the 2019 CWA Dagger New Blood Award for Best First Crime NovelIn an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought

Married by 22 and divorced five years later