David Malouf is an Australian writer who is considered to be one of Australia’s most important. He’s written novels, short stories, opera librettos, and more. In 2000, he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2008.
‘At My Grandmother’s’ by David Malouf explores the haunting presence of the past and the interplay between memory, time, and mortality.
An afternoon, late summer, in a room
Shuttered against the bright, envenomed leaves;
An under-water world, where time, like water
Was held in the wide arms of a gilded clock,
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