Alice Springs author Dani Powell launches debut novel ‘Return to Dust’

Author Dani Powell is set to launch her highly anticipated debut novel ‘Return to Dust’ at Olive Pink Botanic Garden in Alice Springs, Sunday, May 31 at 11am.

Author Dani Powell is set to launch her highly anticipated debut novel ‘Return to Dust.’ Picture: SUPPLIED

Author Dani Powell is set to launch her highly anticipated debut novel ‘Return to Dust’ at Olive Pink Botanic Garden in Alice Springs, Sunday, May 31 at 11am.

Described as a “haunting and poetic meditation on grief and the omnipresence of death in life” by Australian artist and writer Kim Mahood, ‘Return to Dust’ is a tale of bereavement, of recovering lost things and finding our place.

“When Amber returns to her home in the Australian desert, her hope is to move on from her grief, to start again.

Please join Dani Powell to celebrate the launch of her book ‘Return to Dust’ at the Olive Pink Botanical Gardens on 31 May at 11am.

Posted by Red Kangaroo Books on Friday, 15 May 2020

“Invited to work in a remote Aboriginal community, she sets off on a three-day trip on unsealed roads that link a constellation of communities, roads that promise purpose but soon sweep her off track, steering her backwards and forwards in time, in search of her landmarks and bearings.”

A resident of Alice Springs for the past twenty years, Ms Powell has directed the NT Writers’ Festival in Alice Springs since 2015 and has been published in several literary journals.

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She will be joined Sunday May 31 by ABC journalist Alex Barwick, poet, educator, researcher and judge of this year’s Stella Prize, Leni Shilton, and Eastern Arrernte woman and poet Sylvia Purrurle Neale.

To order your copy of ‘Return to Dust’ visit redkangaroobooks.com.