Plastic Budgie
$29.60
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2025
Summary
Olivia De Zilva’s Plastic Budgie is a brutally funny and inventive debut about family and self, full of itchy Y2K nostalgia, curses and glimpses of birds.
‘There was no use googling am I cursed because the search engine algorithm would always say yes.’
Olivia was named after a lycra-clad singer her parents saw on Rage. As a child, she lost the ability to speak and spent a year barking like a dog. Her Gong Gong bought her a yellow bird in a sh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781763554146 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1763554147 |
| Author: | Olivia De Zilva |
| Publisher: | Pink Shorts Press |
| Imprint: | Pink Shorts Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 135mm x 223mm |
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Olivia De Zilva
Olivia De Zilva is the author of Plastic Budgie and Eggshell. Her work has been published in The Guardian, Westerly, Liminal, SBS, Cordite Poetry Review, Mascara Literary Review, and Australian Poetry Journal, among others. Olivia graduated with a Master of Philosophy from the University of Queensland; her thesis explored the representation of Asian-diasporic identity in contemporary Australian publishing. She is based on Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide, Australia.
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