It may not reach the peaks of his debut Ironback, but Carmichael’s 1950s-set story of two men – one white, one Indigenous – breathes life into a forgotten history
hostile: “a space that was not intended for me”. He knows there are people like him, men with similar hungers – he reads about them in the paper: “
.” In Marlo, faithful to Australia’s punitive past, homosexuality is not only illegal but seen as a “gross indecency”, a medical anomaly, something abhorrent. Yet Carmichael does not allow his lovers to succumb to tragedy, trauma, death – motifs of the “bury your gays” trope of queer characters. In his author’s note, Carmichael quotes Dennis Altman’s Homosexual, regarding how “most attempts to see homosexuality in a broader context have tended to reinforce social opprobrium and homosexual misery”.Carmichael’s prose achieves a quality seemingly ordinary but desirable in fiction: it is recognisable.
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