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Transportation Press: Transportation islands and cities launched. Welcome Iran!
Transportation Press
Transportation islands and cities is a collection of contemporary stories from Tasmania and London. Issue two will include writers from Tasmania, UK and Iran.
Issue one, Transportation Islands and Cities launched in Hobart, Nottingham and London to full houses, and has bumped Richard Flanagan off the number 1 best seller spot for the first time since his Booker Prize win.
As Peter Conrad, London based, Tasmanian born writer and Oxford don, said in his introduction to the collection “There are many kinds of transportation, not all of which involve prison ships. I first read a print-out of the work in this book last November on a flight from London to New York and, although I was aware of the plane battling through grim winter weather as we travelled ahead, they tugged me in a different direction – sometimes with a physical shock, as if I had plunged into the psychological equivalent of an air pocket. The stories, as my mother would have said, ‘took me back’.
Editor of Tasmanian Times, the inimitable Lindsay Tuffin launched the book in Hobart, you can watch his launch speech here:
http://walleahpress.com.au/garradunga/launch-transportation-islands-cities/