Walking the Line
Red Press, 47 pp
Summer Ends Now
University of Queensland Press, 164 pp
Worlds of Love and Violence
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.
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Walking the Line
by Rae Desmond Jones
Red Press, 47 pp
Summer Ends Now
by John Emery
University of Queensland Press, 164 pp
