The Rag and Bone Man Press
Edited by Keira Dickinson
ISBN: 978 0 646 58883 4
The first creative collation of stories from Melbourne’s soup vans—the vibrant history and the incredible community that surrounds them.
Soup Van: Stories over a polystyrene cup is the collective voice of ‘vannies’ and ‘streeties’, the community that exists in and around Melbourne’s refuges, low income houses and commission flats.
Modern, funny, often surprising and occasionally confronting, the book offers a diverse collection of short stories, interviews, pictures and poems capturing the incredible lives and experiences of people hidden and often unheard within society.
If dignity lies in each individual’s story—told freely and heard by the volunteers—then this book achieves more than most. With its scribbled poems and red-brick realism, Soup Van speaks simply of kindness. – Robert Doyle, Lord Mayor of Melbourne
Editor’s profile:
Keira Dickinson has been volunteering with the Collingwood soup van since 2010. Soup Van: Stories over a polystyrene cup is the result of many dedicated hours of personally recorded and re-interpreted interviews and discussions. In addition to her work with The Rag and Bone Man Press, she has worked as an editor for major academic publishing houses both in Australia and the UK.
