![]() ![]() This is contemporary fiction at its finest. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. ![]() Her debut short story collection, Foreign Soil, won the 2013 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and will be published by Hachette Australia in early 2014.Īs a spoken word performer, Maxine’s work has been delivered on stages and airways, and in festivals across the country, including at the Melbourne Writers Festival (2008, 2010, 2013), Melbourne International Arts Festival (2012), the Arts Centre (2009) and the Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival (2013). She is the author of the poetry collections Gil Scott Heron is on Parole (Picaro Press, 2009) and Nothing Here Needs Fixing (Picaro Press, 2013), the title poem of which won the 2013 Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize. Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer and slam-poetry champion of Afro-Caribbean descent. Social Media: Goodreads, Facebook, and Twitterįormat and Price: Audio-book at $14.95 (with Audible membership) ![]() The circles/clumps are all different shapes and sizes. The audiobook cover has a black background, with multi-coloured circles/clumps decorating the cover the cover in a sporadic pattern. Image Description: the audiobook cover of Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke. ![]()
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