Tristan Foster

Tag: review

  • On Georg Trakl’s Sebastian Dreaming

    I reviewed Sebastian Dreaming by Georg Trakl, translated by James Reidel and published by Seagull Books, for the Summer 2017 issue of the great Asymptote. My first proper poetry review. Read the collection and wrote the review in a frenzy back in Feb. I think Trakl was just what I needed. Big, big thanks to Read.

  • On my review of Night in the Sun

    My review of Night in the Sun, the second short story collection by US writer Kyle Coma-Thompson, has been published at Full Stop. I first read Coma-Thompson in The White Review. His story ‘Spite & Malice’ was the last or second to last piece in the issue and I almost skipped it because I subscribe Read.

  • On Foreign Soil, An Elegant Young Man + Captives

    My (somewhat lengthy) review of Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke, An Elegant Young Man by Luke Carman and Captives by Angela Meyer has been published by (the good folk over at) ENTROPY. Thought it worthwhile to evaluate the work of some young Australian writers; by weighing the works against each other, I hope the trends and quality Read.

  • On The Coral Battleground

    My review of Spinifex Press’s reissue of The Coral Battleground by Judith Wright is up now at Verity  La. Proud o’ this one – The Coral Battleground has become something of a conservationist classic – because of Wright’s measured, sober tone, but also because it is genuinely inspiring, a testament to the power of people. But, as mentioned Read.

  • On Juno & Hannah

    My review of Juno & Hannah – a Gothic story about two sisters who escape from an insular religious community and set in the bush in 1920s New Zealand – by Beryl Fletcher is up now at Verity La. With thanks to Mr Featherstone. Read.

  • On Chi Vu’s Anguli Ma

    Anguli Ma is a murderer. In the versions of the myth that I found online, his name is Angulimala, named as such for the garland of fingers, lopped from the hands of his victims, that he wears around his neck. The wicked man is one finger away from completing his finger-necklace when Buddha convinces him Read.