First published by Vagabond Press
www.vagabondpress.net
© Pam Brown 2018
Design and typography by Chris Edwards
Back cover photo: ‘xa – dvd’ by Pam Brown
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government
through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
ISBN 978-1-922181-34-3
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Combination soup
october already
*
on the last night
of september
server shudder
sends out
too many emails
it’s always 11.52
when
I’m
prevaricating
*
flat screen hd tv
in a
red wheelbarrow
hard rubbish
going home
9
*
the nazi train
full of gold
in a railway tunnel
in poland
we don’t know where
*
fog delays
seeing double
cirriform recedes
in a chemtrail wake
over punchbowl
spraycan
can spray
everyone’s a welder
*
the food
section
10
how to eat
an
ortolan
cover your head
with a cloth
shield your shame
but know
your Bottega Veneta napkin
deserves no stain
shoot
the nutribullet
*
the other
food
section
trastevere
from them there is
the top of the street
food of quality
now a legend
where lick
a moustache
11
*
the train
full of gold
is in
wałbrzych
we don’t know
if it is
booby trapped
*
you’re the salt
in my stew
*
an ash threat
volcano blows
in the east
in the summer
of my seventh decade
I join
the carbon cycle
go wading
12
in radioactive plume
*
microbes
determine
every difference
including
intelligence?
or
the appearance
of intelligence
could somebody
sign me on
for some
of the artificial stuff
*
a Futurama concept –
‘super speed’
win $200
&
in one day
spend it
on
13
50 cups
of $4
coffee
drink them
to achieve
super speed
it’ll be great
*
sold to a wrecker
for a speck
carless in car city
sideways ear rocks
a vacuum
of phantasm
too-too icelandic music
bluetooth car kit a fad
devotional drumming
frosted electronica
though predominant
in the end
that Gotye song
was too simple
14
*
saving for a spoiler
& sheer line
panel design
shelf-stacking
cool rooms
to make the money
to make
ends meet
sick of night
freezing
in frayed gloves
*
you’re the lace
in my shoe
*
ban cigarettes
& the entire jail
riots
*
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Winner ALS Gold Medal for Literature 2019
Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award 2019
Shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award 2018
'This collection is a fine example of Pam Brown’s larger project, to write a poetry that maps the edges of thought, or—in her words—to think ‘what cannot / be thought’. click here for what we do brings a clarity and precision to language that refracts the everyday into a strangeness with which to examine what we thought we knew. Disjunctions between objects, and the words used to describe them, comingle into a delightful study of the paradox and power of poetry. Like ‘a shimmering mirage of flame’, the extended lengths of these poems, and their short, fragmented lines, suggest that the border between spoken language and poetry is a lot hazier than we might otherwise think. However, Brown’s tremendous skill ensures that, no matter how relaxed, the poems are at once comical, satirical and thoughtful; if the poetry feels ‘as ephemeral / as instagram / as a whisper / as a wink’ is it because Brown knows how to find the most innate structures of poetic expression. Leaving traces of disquiet through extended meditations and wry observation, this is a poetry of movement and stillness, a lived document examining contemporary life in real time, in all its banal glory.' (From the judges' report)
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