Ironbark

Jay Carmichael

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Scribe Publications
30 April 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award.

He shouldn't have a life he never asked for and be expected to love men. With their problems never spoken outward. And childhood trauma and family issues. Men wanting to be held or hold.

Markus Bello's life has stalled. Living in a small country town, mourning the death of his best friend, Grayson, Markus is isolated and adrift. As time passes, and life continues around him, Markus must try to face his grief, and come to terms with what is left.

Stylistically assured and quietly compelling, Ironbark is an elliptical and beautifully evoked contemporary coming-of-age story. Through his protagonist, Markus, newcomer Jay Carmichael depicts the conflict and confusion of life as a gay man in rural Australia, and explores how place can shape personal identity by both offering and restricting potential. A moving portrait of grief and loss, Ironbark is also a devastating account of the toll exacted by our society's expectations of what it means to be a man.

'Jay Carmichael's Ironbark does the extraordinary. It achieves what we readers want from the best of fiction- to tell a story anew, and to capture a world in all its wonder, ugliness, tenderness, and cruelty. This is a novel of coming of age and of grief that astonishes us by its wisdom and by its compassion. It's a work of great and simple beauty, so good it made me jealous. And grateful.' -Christos Tsiolkas

'Jay Carmichael approaches the world as a poet, from an angle that is all his own. He reveals a hidden, pulsing reality beneath the surface of the everyday.' -Miles Allinson, author of Fever of Animals

'In sparse and quiet prose, Jay Carmichael's debut is an enveloping novel about grief, survival, and the futility of finding peace in a place you don't belong.' -Shaun Prescott, author of The Town

By: Jay Carmichael
Imprint: Scribe Publications
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781925322552
ISBN 10: 1925322556
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 30 April 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jay Carmichael is a writer and editor. His first novel, Ironbark, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2016. His writing has been published by beyondblue and appeared widely in print and online, including in Overland, The Guardian, SBS, and The Telling Tree project. Jay lives and works in Melbourne.

Reviews for Ironbark

'Jay Carmichael approaches the world as a poet, from an angle that is all his own. He reveals a hidden, pulsing reality beneath the surface of the everyday.' - Miles Allinson, author of Fever of Animals ;'In sparse and quiet prose, Jay Carmichael's debut is an enveloping novel about grief, survival, and the futility of finding peace in a place you don't belong.' - Shaun Prescott, author of The Town

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