Adam Byatt

Mount Pleasant Adam Byatt

"I AM CONSCIOUS OF WHERE I COME FROM AND THE SADNESS THAT GROWS INSIDE OF ME. I AM CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT IT MEANS AND WHAT IT MAKES ME."





In a Western Sydney suburb that no longer exists, its name erased and replaced with another, a façade is created to mask the truth of its existence.




Behind it is...




a girl who runs

a young woman dreaming beyond her uniform

a boy cycling through his family line

a girl who yearns for metamorphosis

a young man playing with polarities

a father who has lost himself

a young man decaying under the summer sun

a man's apology

a woman who longs to be seen




When the viciousness of hope is a powerful drug, the inescapability of hopelessness is even more devastating.




MOUNT PLEASANT is a chapbook of ten stories inspired by the music of Solkyri.