When adult children take up the labour of care for absent fathers and stoic mothers, when contemplating their own futures, things can get complicated.Room 306. Level Three. In inner city Melbourne, David Carlin's mother, Joan, is settling in. Five doors away, on the same floor of the same institution, Peta Murray's father, Frank, is halfway through the statistically ordained 18 months he is likely to live after entering "care". Each is 86. He—an ex-builder and sometime bon vivant...

The A to Z of Creative Writing Methods is an alphabetical collection of essays to prompt consideration of method within creative writing research and practice.Almost sixty contributors from a range of writing traditions and across multiple forms and genre are represented in this volume: from poets, essayists, novelists and performance writers, to graphic novelists, illustrators, and those engaged in multi-media writing or writing-related arts activism. Con...