CADAVER DOG is a verse novel published by UQP.
AWARDS
Winner: 2019 Arts QLD Thomas Shapcott Prize
Highly Commended: 2020 Anne Elder Award
Short-listed: 2021 Mary Gilmore Award
Short-listed: 2021 ALS Gold Medal
Shapcott Prize Judges’ comments:
‘A terse, powerful verse novel drawing on and re-imagining traditions of bush gothic and outback horror … The personal, the ecological and the pathological combine in a narrative made up of poems that are devastating, soulful, uncompromising and singular.’
REVIEWS
Arts Hub
“Poetry such as this, like great music, cries out to be consumed and enjoyed again and again.” - Erich Mayer
Australian Book Review
“… a timely rendering of an event the likes of which will inevitably occur with greater frequency and force.” - Anders Villani
The Australian
‘… an incisive study of madness and grief, bouyed by Best’s imagery.” - Sarah Holland-Batt
Big Issue
“Best’s poetic wrangling is precise and impressive.” - Thuy On
The Westerley
“… exquisite, lush imagery that draws us into the internal and external landscape of devastation.” - Miriam Wei Wei Lo
The Canberra Times
“… considerable individuality.” - Geoff Page