Blueberries

‘I mean who cares about opinions gossip whatever when bodies are so vulnerable in search only of love and breath.’Brilliant young writer Ellena Savage explores Portuguese police stations and Portland college campuses suburban Melbourne libraries and wintry Berlin apartments. She circles back to scenes of crimes or near-crimes to lovers or near-lovers to turn over the stones re-read the paperwork check the deeds approach from another angle altogether. These essays traverse cities and spaces bodies and histories moving through forms and modes to find a closer kind of truth. Blueberries is ripe with acid promise and sweetness.