The Waterfowl Are Drunk!

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Kate Liston-Mills' The Waterfowl Are Drunk! is a series of short stories set in the author's hometown, Pambula, on New South Wales' far south coast. A fox stalks a nest of hatching swans, loving parents deal with their child's Down syndrome diagnosis, a close-knit community mourns a death, a teenager is forced to give up an afternoon of surfing to spend time with her Nan. 'Kate Liston-Mills' lush but precise prose and fresh perspective gives this collection about the tough stuff of ordinary life immense energy, beauty and warmth. That she manages to get depth of character and intense sense of place in such a slim collection is a true wonder, as is her ability to show the inherent drama and tragedy of everyday life without every straying into sentimentality or bleakness.' EMILY MAGUIRE

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"The Waterfowl Are Drunk! is a poetic treasure. Kate Liston-Mills has captured the intimacy and isolation of rural Australian life. Unlike anything I've read before, heartbreakingly funny, vivid and moving." MEGHAN BREWSTER, writer and blogger "Disarmingly Aussie, pairing difficcult issues with humour, laconicism and domesticity." BRIDGET LUTHERBORROW, Going Down Swinging "Working in the best traditions of the tall tales and urban myths repeated and embellished in country pubs the nation over, The Waterfowl Are Drunk! is a richly rendered and skillful meditation on birth, death and disability in coastal, regional New South Wales." L PHILLIP LUCAS, writer and blogger

Author Bio

KATE LISTON-MILLS lives in Pambula and works as a journalist, writer, poet and teacher. Her works have been published in the Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, Writer's Edit, Prowlings, Tertangala, TIDE and the South Coast Writers Centre. GERT GEYER splits her time between Brisbane and Melbourne, and her interest between writing and art. Previous work includes large scale murals, public art and textile design.