Declan Fry

Declan Fry has written for the Guardian, Kill Your Darlings, Griffith Review, Overland, Sydney Morning Herald/Age, Westerly, and elsewhere. His Meanjin essay “Justice for Elijah or a Spiritual Dialogue with Ziggy Ramo, Dancing” received the 2021 Peter Blazey Fellowship. He has also been shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and his work has appeared in The Best Australian Science Writing 2021. His latest fiction appears in Another Australia. @_declanfry

Lisa Hsiao Chen's Activites of Daily Living

Book Review Online

Time Is the Raw Material

By Declan Fry

In her novel Activities of Daily Living, Lisa Hsiao Chen considers the topography of a long life. How does it look, how does it feel, how does it move? And what does it become, when placed under duress, under constraint?