Reviews of ‘The Last Tourist’

 Excerpts from reviews

 The Last Tourist Five Islands Press 2006

Westerly 51
Megan McKinlay

The Last Tourist draws on motifs of journey and transition to explore a wide range of experiences and states of being.

With a deft, restrained hand, Williams effects a seamless movement between the visible surfaces of the everyday and the startling depths beneath. Whatever the objective reality Williams is writing about, her eye is always on something larger.

Australian Book Review August 2006
Rose Lucas

The Last Tourist takes the reader across a number of borders and boundaries-of geographical place and culture, the past and the present, love and its possibilites, and the irrevocable tides of loss. On the brink of the articulations of the poet, the traveller faces the world that is knowable only through the slippery point of perception. Not only are the peaks and troughs of drama and adventure memorialised in the processes of recollection, but so too are the possibilities of future…