{"product_id":"the-dingos-noctuary","title":"The Dingo's Noctuary","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781923099715\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Puncher and Wattmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Highly Commended, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2026, Poetry**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against a backdrop of Australia's central deserts, \u003ci\u003eThe Dingo's Noctuary\u003c\/i\u003e explores themes of identity, belonging, and the fragile threads that connect all living beings. At the heart of the tale is a soul's dark night, the flight of a lady motorcyclist, in the prime of her invisibility, and her mongrel dingo Moon, into the Tanami desert. She's searching for a caravan of miraculous dog-headed beings, glimpsed in dreams and the dementia tales of an old desert lady.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dingo's Noctuary\u003c\/i\u003e is an illustrated verse novel, complete at 70,500 words. It includes accurate hand drawn maps of the Australian central deserts, pressings of rare plants, and forty-seven lumachrome glass prints, afterlife portraits of animals and birds. The story unfolds through combinations of poetry and prose, alongside visual images- maps of land and stars, plant pressings, and forty-seven afterlife portraits of animals and birds. It is a single-authored book in which the images and texts are equally weighted. The book was written over thirty-seven desert crossings, sometimes on the motorcycle with the dog on the back. The entire second half of the book was written on a typewriter after a motorcycle crash (the unsuccessful 37th crossing) left me unable to use a computer. I made a motorcycle blog about one of the journeys in this book here https:\/\/judithnangalacrispin.medium.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWork from \u003ci\u003eThe Dingo's Noctuary\u003c\/i\u003e has received a number of awards and prizes including the 2023 Sunshine Coast Art Prize and the 2020 Blake Prize for Poetry. It was highly comme\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41860198563973,"sku":"PR434797","price":180.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TTGB6PPM8BCK.jpg?v=1789117729","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/the-dingos-noctuary","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}