in The Bell of the World, Gregory Day listens to the music of common things

  • Written by: Julieanne Lamond, Senior Lecturer in English, Australian National University
in The Bell of the World, Gregory Day listens to the music of common thingsWadawurrung Country, Cape Otway, Victoria.Daniel Pelaez Duque/Unsplash

Gregory Day’s The Bell of the World is an ambitious, strange and marvellous novel.

Day has long carried out a determined and idiosyncratic writing practice of paying attention, in writing, to where he lives on Wadawurrung and Gadubanud Country. In the introduction to his...

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