“With a combination and manipulation of found materials, and eschewing a traditional human main character, the land in Empty Spaces becomes the centre. Abel’s compelling and hypnotic prose, with its reverse beginnings, repetition, rewriting and revision, feels like settling into a hot spring that grounds the reader in the present moment. Beautiful, poetic and revelatory.”
—Peer assessment committee: Chris Eaton, Francesca Ekwuyasi and Jen Ferguson
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