joanne burns Book Launch

Join joanne burns for the launch of her new poetry collection, apparently.

The collection will be launched by poet Keri Glastonbury. 

Copies of apparently will be available for sale at the event, along with signings by the author.

The poems collected in apparently appear like visions, intensely experienced but barely real. Where does a poem come from? Over four sections this question is considered. The first section gathers poems spring-boarding from the clues and solutions to crossword puzzles; the second recounts unsettling dreams in the form of prose poems or microfictions; ‘dial’, the longest section, acknowledges the bewildering sense of daily time and the dizzying spectacle of social and worldly matters contained within. Finally, from a more restful or relaxed vantage, ‘the random couch’ presents a number of drifting poems, written while the poet was lounging on the sofa.

joanne burns is Australia’s pre-eminent satirical poet, and her poems are remarkable for their verve and humour and word-play, and the way in which their linguistic resonances suddenly confound your expectations. Her most recent poetry collections published by Giramondo are amphora and brush, which won the 2016 NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. Her work has been taught in high schools, and produced for radio, television, performance and theatre.

Keri Glastonbury is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle. Her poems have been widely published in magazines and collections. She has been the recipient of the Australia Council’s BR Whiting Residency in Rome and an Asialink Literature Residency in India. Her most recent poetry collection, Newcastle Sonnets, was published by Giramondo in 2018.