The Ruby Red's Affair - Renew, Sandra

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Auteur(s) : Renew, Sandra

Editeur : Ginninderra Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/03/2022

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 54

Expédition : 64

Dimensions : 19.8 x 12.9 x 0.3

ISBN : 1761092650

Résumé :

In The Ruby Red's Affair, Scoot Valuti undertakes a visit to a local lesbian bar/night club, meets up with her friends, and, in search of a lifelong loving relationship based on mutual respect and appreciation, has a brief flirtation which results, sadly, in a serious affair which lasts a nanosecond and ends badly. Just as the characters are ambiguous and androgynous, so is the book difficult to define: a short novel or a verse narrative, or a poetry novella, or... It chronicles both a moment and a lifetime, a transformative mind-blowing encounter and another despondent disappointment.

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Biographie:
Sandra has three collections published by Ginninderra Press, The Orlando Files (2018), Who Sleeps at Night (2017) and Projected on the Wall (2015). Her recent collections are It's the sugar, Sugar, (Recent Work Press 2021) and Acting Like a Girl (Recent Work Press 2019). Acting Like a Girl was the winner of the 2020 ACT Writing and Publishing Award for Poetry. Sandra's poetry has recently been published in Griffith Review (Griffith University), The Blue Nib, The Canberra Times, Contemporary Haibun Online, Ribbons, Hecate (University of Queensland), Other Terrain and Backstory (Swinburne University), Meniscus and Axon (University of Canberra) and Australian Poetry Journal. Her poem Mungo was awarded second place in the University of Canberra Health Poetry Prize in 2017. Sandra also writes short form prose and has been published in Shuffle: An Anthology of Microlit, edited by Cassandra Atherton (Spineless Wonders 2019), and was a finalist for the 2018 joanne burns Microlit Award. She was a featured poet at the National Folk Festival Spoken Word for three years from 2017 to 2019.Sandra is a founding editor, with Moya Pacey, of Not Very Quiet, an online journal for women and poetry, and co-hosted the Not Very Quiet women's poetry nights at Smith's Alternative from 2017 to 2020. Sandra and Moya were awarded a Canberra Critics Circle Award for their influential contribution to women's poetry in 2019....