Ladd, Mike2017-08-282017-08-282017-05-18http://hdl.handle.net/2440/107279An Author event presented by The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library, recorded in the Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, 18 May 2017.Mike Ladd's new collection, Invisible Mending ranges across genres including essay, memoir, short story and poetry. Based loosely on the ideas of scarring and healing, Invisible Mending extends from family intimacies to connection and disconnection in the Australian community, environmental damage and repair. It also has an international view. Parts of it were written at an artist's residency in Malaysia and while travelling through South America.enAustralian poetry--21st century.Short stories, Australian--21st century.Australian essays--21st century.Sound821A L154i CD