AWW21 The Rain Heron - Robbie Arnott

Robbie Arnott burst on to the literary scene with his gloriously
imaginative debut, Flames, a novel of stylistic ingenuity that
traversed genres with dense poetic prose. His new book The Rain
Heron is similarly inventive, the story of a mythic bird with
extraordinary powers, able to save and destroy the land, both
hunted and protected by flawed humans. With lush lyrical
language, The Rain Heron is at once ecological parable and
thriller, and an audacious, immersive work from one of
Australia’s most original new talents.


Chaired by Jane Howard