Moult: A Novel in Short Stories | In Conversation with Andy Baird

Name: Moult: A Novel in Short Stories | In Conversation with Andy Baird
Start: 2026-02-19T07:30:00+11:00
End: 2026-02-19T08:30:00+11:00
Location: 131 Collins Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Tasmania 7000

Schedule

Thu Feb 19 2026 at 07:30 am to 08:30 am

UTC+11:00

Location

131 Collins Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Tasmania 7000 | Hobart, TS

What is left when we let go of everything? When all the stories we tell ourselves run out?
Three brothers, their lives traced in thirteen linked short stories as they grow up, fight, fall in love and try to let go. Mick is over it – the battle to perform. Bill’s story is written by a landmine in Vietnam. John seeks answers in the poets, in the monasteries and high places, chasing a mystery that only stopping will reveal. And daughter/niece Haley dances the narrow path of strip clubs and motherhood, raising a child of extraordinary insight.
Moult’s poetic, transcendent language traces a path of renunciation, moving between the inner world and a contemporary story of the New England Tablelands and the forests of Lutruwita / Tasmania. It asks the reader to explore the very essence of being.
Andy ‘Ryugen’ Baird has lived in Lutruwita / Tasmania for the last 35 years, drawn to the island as a sacred land of possibility, existential homecoming and deep natural beauty. He spent his early working life in environmental education, with time in high schools, outdoors in Landcare and Bushcare roles, and in places as diverse as Antarctica, the Arctic and as an environmental trainer in the Dalai Lama’s monastery in India. He also worked for many years at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. In 2021 he ordained as a Zen Buddhist monk and now resides in a straw-stone-timber home and hermitage he built with his partner in the Huon Valley.
Andy will be in conversation with Danielle Wood, Hobart author extraordinaire.
Join Andy and Danielle at the Afterword Cafe.
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