Luke Johnson

'A dark and powerful portrayal of small town secrets and a friendship that leads to tragedy. Luke Johnson is an uncommonly sensitive storyteller – a writer who understands how silences often say more than words.' MARK BRANDI 'Gripping, atmospheric and raw. Friendship, love and loyalty drive this brilliant debut set in a small-town coastal community where secrets are tightly held,...

Kangaroo Unbound is a collection of 50 poems that take their titles and inspiration from legendary Australian artist Garry Shead's iconic 'D.H. Lawrence' series of paintings, which he produced in the early 90s in response to Lawrence's 1923 novel Kangaroo. Like the paintings, the poems range from the heavily influenced—those that lean into the source text with strong ekphrastic fidelity—to...