Cassandra Atherton, “I am the jungle’ A deft take on Virgil, Australian Book Review, August, 2024

‘In an exquisite, braided narrative, Catherine McKinnon’s To Sing of War reanimates World War 11 in a paean to the environment. Set between December 1944 and August 1945, the narrators experience the ways “Violence is malleable, it is everywhere”, but find healing and resilience in “the heart of the earth”’.