‘​​a block of shadow pushing against a diffusing moonlight, the golden halo spreading out into the vineyards from its sides draining into the night like blood on a carpet’

Poetic Licence is a political thriller set against the backdrop of Australia's 2013 election where asylum seekers were the football of choice for some very grubby politicians. It follows Art Lazaar, an academic with special access to the seedy side of that which moves and shakes the state, and his struggles to keep a young asylum seeker safe from those who murdered her brother and would likely do the same to her were she found. 

Lazaar's pursuit for her safety takes him into the world of the killers and where he comes up against poisonous political and institutional corruption at the heart of our political system.

It's set in Perth and Fremantle, but that doesn't make it inaccessible to people who live elsewhere, and is timed for release in the lead up to our next federal election, May 2022.