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Francesca Rendle-Short

Francesca Rendle-Short is a novelist, memoirist and essayist. Her latest book is The Near and The Far Vol 2 (Scribe, co-edited with David Carlin). She is the Associate Dean Writing and Publishing at RMIT University.

Articles by Francesca Rendle-Short:

25 July 201926 September 2019

Towards poetic address: Anne Carson slag

Francesca Rendle-Short

I can’t get to sleep. Anne Carson is in my head.

Published in Overland Issue 210 Autumn 2013

Field guide to writing a father

Francesca Rendle-Short

Figure 1: My father was a great bird watcher. Whenever we took off to the bush or to the rainforest on a family picnic, my father would hang his binoculars around his neck expectantly.

Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 197 Summer 2009

My father’s body

Francesca Rendle-Short

I never saw anything so beautiful … you cannot conceive how the Orchids have delighted me. Charles Darwin to Sir JD Hooker, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and Selected Letters, 1892 Last Sunday I went to church to be with my father, to say goodbye. As I looked in from the vestibule, I could see […]