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Worlds of Love and Violence

by
June 1980, no. 21

Walking the Line by Rae Desmond Jones

Red Press, 47 pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Summer Ends Now by John Emery

University of Queensland Press, 164 pp

Worlds of Love and Violence

by
June 1980, no. 21

Rae Desmond Jones has joined the growing band of poets now working in the more expansive medium of prose diction (thereby possibly expanding their readership as well). Others that come to mind are David Malouf, Roger McDonald, and Rodney Hall.

At just 74 pages, Rae Desmond Jones’s first story collection gives the impression of being a slim volume. The contents page lists only ten stories. Yet this impression is deceptive. There are actually twelve stories (inexplicably, two aren’t listed in the contents), and the usual typography concentrates the prose, emphasizing its density and the sense of menace underlying the narratives.

Walking the Line

Walking the Line

by Rae Desmond Jones

Red Press, 47 pp

Summer Ends Now

Summer Ends Now

by John Emery

University of Queensland Press, 164 pp

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