The Grief Song of the Nesting Rufus Whistler the Day After the Lace Monitor Was Seen in the Eaves

Jane Downing has had prose and poetry published in journals including The Griffith Review, Island, Southerly, Westerly, Overland, The Big Issue and Best Australian Poems 2004 and 2015. Her two novels –The Trickster (2003) and The Lost Tribe (2005) – were published by Pandanus Books at the Australian National University. She can be found at www.janedowning.wordpress.com