Controversial Australian poetry

Question

Anyone know any published, controversial, contemporary, Australian poetry?

preferably ones that aren't just about the Australian Bush, and deal with modern issues:)

thanks

Answer 1

Pam Brown is the author of many books of poetry and prose. Recent titles include Drifting topoi published in 2000 by Vagabond Press, Rare Object Series, Text thing published by Little Esther Books in 2002 and Dear Deliria (New and Selected Poems) from Salt Publishing in 2003. She has also written collaborative texts for performance and made short films and video. Pam Brown lives in Sydney.

List of Publications

Sureblock   1972

Cocabola's Funny Picture Book   1973

Automatic Sad   1974

Correspondences   1979

Cafe Sport   1979

Country & Eastern  1980

Small Blue View  1982

Selected Poems 1971-82   1984

Keep It Quiet   1987

New & Selected Poems   1990

This World. This Place.   1994

Little Droppings   1994

50-50   1997

My Lightweight Intentions   1998, 2006

Drifting topoi   2000

eleven 747 poems  2002

Text thing   2002

Dear Deliria   2003

Let's Get Lost   2005

Peel Me A Zibibbo  2006

farout_library_software  2007

The third edition of the book The Floor of Heaven, a collection of four loosely-linked narrative poems.

‘A rattling good read’  Ã¢Â€Â” JOHN ASHBERY

‘The Floor of Heaven is a tour de force, a devious and profoundly subversive conjuring trick by a poet writing at the peak of his powers… the book pulses with a curious resonance… reminded me irresistibly of the best moments in Twin Peaks… a strange lyricism.’

— ANDREW RIEMER, Sydney Morning Herald

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[ In Ultra ]Tranter has conjured with great verve a babel of voices — plangent, angry, sentimental, melancholy, at times despairing — which carry the reader into vivid evocations of a feverish kind of urban life, despite the poems’ hermetically sealed refusal to yield conventional sense.  Ã¢Â€Â” Andrew Riemer, Sydney Morning Herald, May 11-12 2002

How ultra is ultra? Is ultra exemplified by its relentless form, the brilliant style or more by its refusal of easy epiphanies and resolutions, bathey glows?  Ã¢Â€Â” Michael Farrell , CORDITE, May 06, 2003

The poems are masterful because they survive so much thin ice. They do not fall into cliché, sociology or archness. They are highly visual, cinematic poems that Tranter directs like Polanski. They can make us feel like we are in a film; then, just at the right time, we are back on the street, where the poet stands with his merciless phrasebook… Brilliant. — Barry Hill, The Weekend Australian, 13 October 2001

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