Mother Of All Questions Adelaide Festival Award for Premier's Award and Children's Literature (2020) Author: Robert Lavenda

Author: Robert Lavenda

unique in its perspective

Their arrival was to prove a momentous event in the history of Japan and the shogun suddenly found himself facing a stark to expel the foreigners and continue with his policy of isolation

a God-fearing spinster

It's a story that can be enjoyed by anyone

Mother Of All Questions Adelaide Festival Award for Premier's Award and Children's Literature (2020) Author: Robert LavendaMother of All Questions is Grace Chia's third poetry collection about womanhood exploring what home means, how personal identities intersect and the meaning of life by examining domestic psychodrama, childhood innocence, gendered rebellion and the intimate dynamics of love, desire and loss. In Chia's lyrical and elegiac poetry, she makes putty of the female body's vast and richly textured landscape to mould stories of sentiment and the sensuous into