Kathleen Jennings

Dachshund droids, mad crones, shapeshifting children, a plethora of witches, dragon stalkers, familiars, slithering eels and, of course, bats, flit and fly through these pages, aided and abetted by Kathleen Jennings's deft and inspired pencil drawings. Stray Bats is a glorious miscellany of vignettes based on poems by Australian women. While some of the pieces are close to the originals in form and theme, some stray far, far from them even as Lanagan...