"Here are short and clever pieces by thirty contemporary Australian writers on topics ranging from the eroticism of mash potato, parenting as magic realism and a tongue-in-cheek history of the Cyclops bicycle. The fusion of poetry and prose has created a feast for our literary taste buds. Expect synergy. Julie Chevalier, an editor of Small Wonder. Prose poems and microfiction appeal to people don t have the time to read War and Peace. They appeal to people who need an instant blast of colour before hurrying off to a packed day.
Microfiction distills elements of narration into, in this case, a snappy 800 words. It s a short story that s jumped out of a plane and is counting the seconds until the parachute opens. Prose poetry looks like a squared off paragraph but feels like a burst of fireworks. It crafts language into a surrealistic surprise, without line breaks. "
