Thursday, December 11, 2008

Best Poetry Books 2008 - Michael Farrell

Michael Farrell's choices:

πO (or Pi O) - Big Numbers: New and Selected Poems by πO (or Pi O) (Collective Effort Press)


fantastic book by local genius (i.e. melbourne, australia). someone who knows how to sue punctuation for both sound & comic effect. includes greek australian dialogues; concrete poems; number poems .. it might seem a bit expensive at $AUS39.60 but its a fat book full of history, humour and language. theres never been a better time to buy australian poetry - our dollars worth virtually nothing!

Patrick Jones and Peter O'Mara's How To Do Words With Things (Tree-Elbow Publishing) is a post-god, post-genre sandwiching of manifesto and poetry featuring 'freedragging' film stills, conceptual maps, ads-as-vispo, math as emotion.




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Michael Farrell has published 3 books: ode ode (Salt, 2002); BREAK ME OUCH - graphic poems (3 Deep, 2006); and a raiders guide (Giramondo, 2008). He is included in The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, edited by John Kinsella (Penguin, 2008).

1 comment:

michaelf said...

this is a second recommendation, sorry for being so slow off the mark ..

Patrick Jones and Peter O'Mara's 'How To Do Words With Things' is a post-god, post-genre sandwiching of manifesto and poetry featuring 'freedragging' film stills, conceptual maps, ads-as-vispo, math as emotion.

http://jacketmagazine.com/36/r-jones-omara-rb-lorange.shtml