The free content for September 2026 is Cactus‘ by Stevi-Lee Alver, Rochford Press 2016
In 2016 Stevi-Lee Alver was based in the Northern Rivers region of NSW, she now lives in Brazi. Stevi-Lee Alver has had her fiction, poetry, and reviews published across Australia and the United States. In 2014, while studying at the University of Massachusetts, she received the Class of 1940 Creative Writing Award for poetry. She was one of the winners of the 2014 Questions Writing Prize for her short-story ‘Phoenix’. She received the 2015 Southern Cross University award for Excellence in The Arts. Cactus is her first book.
Cactus Beach: famous for its left and right hand breaks. Two women soak up sea, desert, sun and sensuality in this spare meditation on love………………………..–Susan Hawthorne
Cactus is a sensate invocation for entanglement in our biosphere-in-delicate-balance. Via her own fine judgement, emerging writer Stevi-Lee Alver potentiates the prose poem, making a ‘surfie chick’ narrative into a deeply affecting bel canto.. ………………………..– Moya Costello
Cactus features a cover illustration by Narelle Adair Coxhead who also assisted with the book design.
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