And Watch The Whale Explode : UTS Writers' Anthology 2017

And Watch The Whale Explode : UTS Writers' Anthology 2017
ISBN: 9781925589085
Publication Date: 1 May 2017

When a whale washes up on the shore of a beach there is only one surety: it must explode. Sometimes a bystander, anticipating the inevitable, pokes the gaseous figure; the skin rips, and it is done. Our world can feel like the brimming belly of a beached whale, the pressure building, an indeterminate force compelling us to take an explosive action, even when it makes little to no sense.

A girl takes a pair of shears to a black-dashed line on her skin; a woman tries to stem the flow of snake venom in the blood of a man who is already dead; an epileptic wears a crash helmet ;'round the clock; a man with only one good arm cuts it off with a chainsaw, and how?

After every explosion, a throng of people approach the beach cautiously, collecting the debris together.

Introduced by celebrated Australian essayist, poet and critic, Fiona Wright, ;*And Watch the Whale Explode ;*is the 31st edition of the UTS Writers' Anthology.

About the Author

Fiona Wright is a doctoral candidate with the University of Western Sydney Writing and Society Research Centre. Her poetry collection Knuckled (2011) won the Dame Mary Gilmore Award for a first collection in 2011.