You are warmly invited to celebrate
KEN BOLTON & PAM BROWN
two new poetry collections
from Vagabond Press
with
3pm
at
everyone welcome
For further information
Amanda Stewart
Chris Edwards
Ken Bolton
Pam Brown
Saturday 5th December
Parkview Hotel
corner Mitchell Road & Harley Street
Alexandria, Sydney
from Vagabond Press
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How to get to Parkview Hotel
Mitchell & Harley, Alexandria
transport & map click here
About London Journal/London Poem :
About Missing up :
London Journal / London Poem is an account of the author's thinking and seeing while on a trip to London to visit son and daughter-in-law and to travel with them and his own partner, to Berlin and Barcelona. It is an amusing calibration of self-consciousness, speculation, stereotypes and detail, reflection and discovery.
These offbeat, fragmentary yet often discursive poems were written over three years up to spring 2015. In part, they epitomize the absurdities of contemporary materialism. Pam Brown's well-practised scepticism dismantles monumental intent and splices the remains into a shrewd melange of imagery and thoughtful lyric complemented by playfulness. For Pam writing poetry is a habit, a disorganised ritual. Her poetic inventories begin in everyday bricolage. Real things interrupt the poems the same way thoughts and phrases do. You know - the fridge over there, the bus stop, surf music on a radio, a raisin squashed against a floor tile - always backgrounding a connection to the 'social' as the poems make political and personal associative links. Though disquiet is present it is usually temporary - an optimistic wit plays through this idiosyncratic poetry as a kind of placebo. But, in the end, Pam Brown simply lets the language do the work.
