I Love Poetry
I Love Poetry
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MichaelFarrell is the most adventurous andexperimental of contemporary Australianpoets, continually pushing the boundaries of what poetry can do. Highlyregarded for the playful rhythms and comic, gestural qualities of his poetry, his poems set language, syntaxand punctuation in motion. His eye for metaphor and the unexpected combination,for punning and the letter in both its verbal and visual aspects - gives hispoetry its unique humour and energy. In poems like 'AC/DC As First Emu Prime Minister', 'Sheep, Golden Syrup, ElizabethBishop', and 'Cate Blanchett And The Difficult Poem', I Love Poetry scrambles a landscape ofcolloquial and obscure images.
Michael Farrell'scollections include living at the z, ode ode (shortlisted for the Age Poetry Book of the Year Award), BREAK ME OUCH, a raiders guide (published by Giramondo in 2008), thempark and thou sand. His second collection with Giramondo, Open Sesame (2011) was shortlisted forthe NSW Premier's Award for Poetry. Cocky'sJoy (Giramondo 2015) was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's LiteraryAward for Poetry. He was the winner of the 2012 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. Heis the author of a work of literary criticism, Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 17961945(Palgrave Macmillan).
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