Bloodrust and Other StoriesFrank depictions of family, mental health, youth, ageing, love, and lust speak to the fragility of life, and to the dangerous games we play when we cross boundaries. Hidden beneath the mundanity is violence and decay, mirroring the natural environment so lyrically recreated in Prendergast's raw prose pollen that stains the local estuary water an unsettling redBloodrust. A rare voice, honest and unsparing in its savage poetry. Admirably complex and