170 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Contents
Towards evening / Gregory O'Brien -- Mixed marriage / Fiona Farrell -- Out of Irishtown / K.O. Arvidson -- Mauriac et moi / Elizabeth Smither -- Breaking the argument down : a conversation with Dinah Hawkes -- First words / Christine Johnson -- The moon and the stars / Anne Kennedy -- The flooded steps /Geoff Cochrane -- The creek jumper : a writer and her Catholic faith / Joy Cowley -- On not being a Catholic writer / Joanna Margaret Paul -- Catholic with a small c / Andrew Johnston -- The words that get up / Bernadette Hall -- Song for Debbie--singing with the dead / photographs by Anne Noble
Summary
"Writers ... affected by Catholicism ... explore the meaning of that legacy in their lives and its effects on their writing"--Back cover
