In the micro stories of Lost Words, Xavier Hennekinne's narrator takes us on a reflective journeyfrom his entranced yet perplexed youth in France to sleepless nights as acontemporary parent. This compelling voyage through time and mood isaccompanied by images by Phil Day. Just as the prose entwines us in its subtle recurringrhythms, the prints and drawings are never literal, taking ordinary objects butrevealing their sinuous shapes out of dark and suggestive structures.

An intriguing collaboration where words and pictures seemto travel in parallel, but intersect and connect while remaining true to their ownessential threads.' - Julian Davies, author of Call Me and Crow Mellow

'...aseries of uncanny and neo-surreal moments that obsessively circle around eachother.' - Cassandra Atherton, Poet and Associate Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University