T by Alan Fyfe

Chilling to read, cut with powerful energy and strong feeling. T or Timothy lives on the economic margins, both using and selling methamphetamine in Mandurah. When a friend, Gulp, tragically dies and T grows close to Lori-Bird his life promises to become more centred. But he moves between loving and leaving her. This is a lyrical and arresting portrait of characters who crave love but struggle with addiction and the tenuous yet intimate community connections it gives them. The spirit of the Peel landscape informs both T's identity and the lives of the people he encounters and offers a way out. Intimate with suffering and beauty, T is also at times transcendent. A contemporary novel with the urgency of what Davies' Candy, Kerouac's On the Road, and Garner's Monkey Grip were to their own times.

Author Alan Fyfe is originally from Mandurah, WA, whose verse and prose can be found in Westerly, Overland, Australian Poetry Journal, and Cottonmouth. He was an inaugural editor of UWA creative writing journal, Trove, and a prose editor for American web journal, Unlikely Stories. He is a winner of the Karl Popper Philosophy Award, was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, commended in the Tom Collins Poetry Prize, and has been selected as a WA Poets' Inc Emerging Poet for 2022 / 23. Alan is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia, where he is writing a novel in chiastic structure.

• Shortlisted for the TAG Hungerford Manuscript Award 2018
• Shortlisted for the International Chaffinch Press Manuscript Award (Ireland)

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Author Alan Fyfe

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