AWW21 Future Awry with Patrick Allington and Dennis Glover

In Patrick Allington’s Rise & Shine, an environmental
apocalypse has wiped out most of the population. Those that
survive are nourished – literally – by the consumption of violent
footage from the perpetual war waged between the two city-states
of Rise and Shine. In Dennis Glover’s Factory 19, a Walshian
figure leads a willing cohort back to the future to an enclave in
Tasmania, where they search for happiness in an industrialised
past. Both books offer surreal and darkly satirical takes on
leadership, humanity and the common good.


Chaired by Geordie Williamson