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Zoom book launch: Cadaver Dog
24 Sept 2020 / 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Online with Avid Reader

Zoom book launch: Cadaver Dog

This stunning and powerful verse novel was the winner of the 2019 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry. Join Luke Best for the launch of Cadaver Dogwith Avid Reader.

When an inland tsunami floods the foothills of a mountain city, a woman survives the inundation of her home, alone. This edgy, potent verse novel circles the scene like the cadaver dog whose work it is to search for those who are missing. Reimagining traditions of bush gothic and outback horror, Luke Best crafts a terrifying and acute psychological portrait of grief and guilt. Loss, cowardice and trauma pulse through this singular and uncompromising narrative of ecological and personal disaster.

Luke Best was born in Toowoomba, where he lives and works. His poetry has been published in literary journals including Overland, Verity La, Stilts Journal, Concrescence, Mascara Literary Review and Tincture Journal. His manuscript Percussion was Highly Commended in the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Prize. Cadaver Dog is Luke’s first book and won the 2019 Thomas Shapcott Prize.

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