Thursday 27 May 2021, 6:00 pm for a 6:30pm start
Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide
$10 at the door. Eftpos only. Students free. Proceeds support the University Library.
Bookings are essential by 25 May to friends_library@adelaide.edu.au
Numbers are limited to observe COVID-19 restrictions
How do paramedics cope with constant exposure to trauma in a work life which is a supercut of the worst days of other people’s lives? Mead’s novel , based on real life experiences in Adelaide, tells the story of how paramedics Tash and Joel maintain their sanity, preserve their mental health and their relationships. It is a story of survival through binding friendship, sometimes though black humour, and of humanity in extremity. It is not all gore and grit – some emergencies are frightening, others moving, but some are simply funny.
Rachael Mead is a poet, writer, and arts reviewer living in South Australia. With Honours in Classical Archaeology, she also has a Masters in Environmental Studies, and a PhD in Creative Writing. She is the author of four collections of poetry: most recently The Flaw in the Pattern (UWA Publishing 2018), Her writing has appeared in Meanjin, Westerly, Island, Southerly and Best Australian Poems. In 2019 she received an AP/NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship award for a creative writing residency in northern Italy.