Until a Shrimp Learns to Whistle

By T M Collins

Until a Shrimp Learns to Whistle is a compellingly mordant yet profound and moving meditation on the ephemeral quality of our existence. In these lapidary narratives there is a dark overall cast to the work, the writer being influenced by the dystopic early J.G. Ballard in the bleak pessimism and claustrophobic surreal nature of the wri

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debbie Lee
• Release date: Sep 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9781760417796

T M Collins

T M Collins was born in Brisbane in 1957 and lives in Redlands City, Queensland. He is a fictionist and playwright but predominately a poet. He has received over 100 awards for his poetry, fiction and plays and has been published over 100 times in journals, magazines and newspapers in Australia and overseas.

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