Sun-Herald: Review of 2007 UTS Writers' Anthology

The Sun-Herald
29 July 2007

Copyright
Reproduced with permission.

Reviewed by Daniel Herborn

Student experimental fiction normally figures prominently in any list of things life is too short for, but in this new anthology by UTS writing students, even the more left-field entries work. It's a markedly postmodern, eclectic mix, with writers splicing in excerpts from plays and political speeches, amusing faux-academic footnotes and playing with structure. More traditional pieces are strong too, particularly Storm In A Coffee Mug, where a woman retreats to a beach cabin, and Tiffany Hambley's moving account of her father's death. Joel Scott's tight, sensuous poems and Trish FitzSimon's sombre Peats Ridge essay also stand out.

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.