Shuffle: An Anthology of Microlit

From vomiting revellers to peripatetic snorers, from Bowie to Puccini and from leaf blowers in suburbia to souvenir snatchers at the Berlin Wall – this anthology by Australian authors explores the multifaceted theme of sound. Edited by Cassandra Atherton and featuring award-winning Australian authors such as Jill Jones, Geoff Page, Jordie Albiston. Includes winners and finalists from The joanne burns Microlit Award.

Songs, symphonies in miniature, fireworks: Shuffle is a collection that enthrals, illuminates, and moves to a magical – and often – cheeky beat. So wondrous it deserves to be both devoured and savoured. NIGEL FEATHERSTONE, Bodies of Men

With fish flops, white-noise, inner birds and outer brick grinding, Shuffle is a tiny aural feast: very short bite sized courses for the eyes and ears, layering sound upon silence to produce a collection that is evocative, vivid and, above all, inspiring. This is a fantastic source book for new approaches to form in the realms of both prose poetry and short short fiction. IVY IRELAND

CASSANDRA ATHERTON is an award-winning writer, academic and critic. She was a Harvard Visiting Scholar in English in 2016 and her most recent books of prose poetry are Pika-Don (Mountains Brown Press, 2017), Prosody: Metre (Recent Work Press, 2018) and Pre-Raphaelite (Garron Publishing, 2018).