From the series of poetry reviews with interviews, at Messenger’s Booker
Today I complete the full suite of shortlisted and highly commended books from the 2017 Mary Gilmore Award, an award for the best first book of poetry published in the previous calendar year. As all of the poets shortlisted and commended for this year’s award, Aden Rolfe has participated in an interview about his collection “False Nostalgia”.
The interviews, and my thoughts on each book, can be found by clicking the links in the list below:
“Glasshouses” – Stuart Barnes (UQP)
“Sydney Road Poems” – Carmine Frascarelli (rabbit)
“Lemons in the Chicken Wire” – Alison Whittaker (Magabala)
“Lake” – Claire Nashar (Cordite)
Aden Rolfe’s book commences with quotes, epigraphs, by Drake and Georges Perec and before you’ve read a single poem you know you are in for an interesting ride.
I’m looking forward to the
memories of right now
DRAKE
the picture is cut up not only into inert, formless…
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