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Reviews & interviews Fourteen Ways of Looking by Erin Vincent (March 2026)

Review by Catriona Menzies-Pike in The Guardian 13.3.26

“an exhilarating, dazzling reckoning with grief”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/13/fourteen-ways-looking-erin-vincent-book-review

Review by Joseph Schreiber, rough ghosts

Fiona Murphy review in The Saturday Paper 28.2.26

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/books/2026/02/28/fourteen-ways-looking

Review by Jason Steger in SMH/Age in March

Fourteen Ways of Looking
Erin Vincent
Upswell, $32.99
March 3
Erin Vincent was 14 when her mother and father were hit by a truck while trying to cross a freeway. In this frankly brilliant, imaginative reflection on her grief (https://upswellpublishing.com/product/fourteen-ways-of-looking) at losing her mother − her feelings are more ambivalent about her father − she uses the number 14 as a Perec-like structure through which to interrogate that grief. At one point, she asks the world plaintively: “When does grief end?” The answer is, of course, it doesn’t, but you suspect that through her incisive, analytical, personal and deeply moving work, Vincent goes a long way towards assuaging it somewhat.

Interview with Fran Kelly, Radio National Hour

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-radio-national-hour/author-erin-vincent-examines-grief/106523386

Review by Jenny Valentish, The Age