If you want a book that will have you in stitches, then this is it! I laughed so hard I cried. Kaz Cooke's dry humour really appeals to me.

The book is a collection of columns she has written for various newspapers in Australia. Kaz writes about fashion, sex, women's rights and politics to name a few.

"It seems there has always been a rather magical link between artists and livestock", she writes in 'Is That a Chicken in Your Pocket, or Are You a Conceptual Artist?'. "Perhaps the real question is 'what is the artist saying, and do we give a toss'? Could the message be 'I am tougher than a number 15 boiling fowl'? Or might it simply be 'the post modernist use of roofing nail tin for use in the narrative possibilities of nailing chook pieces to the wall'? Or even 'if only I 'd gone to life drawing classes, I wouldn't be standing here in a rubber pinny with an Arts' Council grant application and a blunt axe?' ( )