Australian novelist and verse-novelist Steven Herrick discusses his verse-novel The Simple Gift, and the importance of emotional gifts and the gift of accepting people without judgement. The Simple Gift has been on the HSC prescriptions list for a decade, and we discuss how it has the capacity to be studied in a number of ways in a number of complexities. We also chat about his earlier works and his current novel focusing on domestic violence.
Steven also chats to us about his cycling journeys that have taken him across the world and his passion for cycle safety and creating a functioning society for humans not cars.
A wonderfully insightful chat with a wonderful Australian author.