Dimensions
128 x 194 x 7mm
Novelties resonates with the themes of nature, love, and literature while showcasing Hile's command of style and form - the traditional Australian ballad is playful, hyperbolic language to provide a counterfeit narrative of Australian poetry; the history of love is seized and re-written, with desire placed on consignment to a leased-out libido; and elements of the traditional Australian aesthetic are conscripted to appear in an impossible evocation in which 'all novels are short stories, all stories are really poems', and an easel is a guillotine for writing poems about nature.
