This Paradise: Stories Abdulla al-Harrasi and recently won the 2011

and recently won the 2011 John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award

holy helper and healer

Slade Hopkinson

sly logic of disobedient matter and the ‘indecent mischief’ of things – a bloody razor

religion and disillusionment

This Paradise: Stories Abdulla al-Harrasi and recently won the 2011A family prepares for Assessment. Two brothers haggle over the legacy of their parents. A computer game designer aches with curious longings. Amidst it all, sisters, heroines, rebels, lunar moths and a not insignificant number of rabbits play out their lives under the strange grips of technology, governments, corporations and the capricious planets on which we all, in our different ways, just about manage to live. This Paradise is a rare and beautiful