“I marvelled at the vastness and flatness and emptiness of the parched red desert floor, the huge void of silence, suspended primordial time; the east–west highway that ran straight for hundreds of miles with only a single diner and petrol station; road signs with names of towns hundreds of miles away; the red dirt roads that cut their way north past tall grain stores, abandoned mills and sheep and cattle stations, the wake of billowing red dust we left behind; sunsets aflame in the western sky, and then at night the extravagance of scintillating diamonds that seemed like pin pricks into the light of the Universe. ”

Extract from ‘A Song’ – included in the showcase