Bøger af Susan Mccreery

Is it a painting? Is it a poem? No, it's a novella as an act of prestidigitation. And it will become a classic.In a fresh, free, engaging style, Susan McCreery explores the histories - tragic, comic, mundane - of lives in a Bondi apartment block. The camera angles of the elegant, sensual prose shift and glide as the full scale of the drama is steadily illuminated. - Carmel BirdSusan McCreery is the master of the small, deft stroke: her characters come alive, break your heart, make you want to live. McCreery can do in one page what might take other writers a whole novel. - Hayley ScrivenorTender. Crushingly real. This exquisite rendering of human longing will unravel your heart and weave it whole again. - Carol MajorAll the Unloved is a novella-length journey to nineties Bondi. We meet residents from a block of flats - initially linked only through their shared address - but quickly entangled through their secrets and desires.Jade, skateboard slung under arm, teeters on the edge of womanhood in nineties Bondi. Through her eyes we view the intertwined lives of her unit block neighbours - a queer couple attempts a fresh start near the beach, a lonely violinist battles isolation, and a pair of elderly sisters watch all from their window, regretting missed opportunities. When brilliant Rebecca, a young author, arrives on the scene, wounds and desires are exposed, and secrets unravel.About the AuthorFrom poetry to microfiction, short stories, and now a novella, South Coast author of Waiting for the Southerly (Ginninderra Press 2012, shortlisted for the Anne Elder award), Loopholes (Spineless Wonders 2016, shortlisted for the MUBA, now BOTY) and This Person Is Not That Person (Puncher & Wattmann 2019), Susan McCreery captures in All the Unloved a story of love in many of its forms - mother love, unrequited love, elderly love - as well as the iconic Bondi scents of sand, salt and sunscreen.

Who are we when we are with someone else?The characters in This Person Is Not That Person include mismatched flatmates, long-married couples, and mothers and daughters - all dealing with the fallout, fractures and misunderstandings of human relationships. They are ordinary people - flawed, slightly off-kilter - trying to work out what's real.Susan McCreery lives in Thirroul on the NSW south coast, an ideal location for an avid ocean swimmer. She has worked as a nursing assistant; Luna Park game stall attendant; waiter; EFL teacher and olive picker in Greece; youth hostel manager; and literacy tutor. For the past 20 years she has worked as a proofreader/copy editor. Her two previous books are Waiting for the Southerly (2012) and Loopholes (2016). She is working on her first novel.

';This first book is packed with clear-eyed veracity, offers a shining resilience, personal insight and shared comfortwe are enjoined, a chorus.' Les WicksFew poets express the meeting of nature and emotion as tenderly as Susan McCreery. Her poems open with images of nature and draw the reader in to scenarios of such heartbreak and love it is at times hard to surface. The sparkle of a boy playing in the surf, the metallic sound of betrayal on a Greek island, the humidity of a summer's night part physical, part longing for what has been lost. Among these gentle poems are suggestions of violence, of politics, of alienation, all held in a lacuna, waiting for that southerly to bring the pressure down.