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Aqua Spinach

96 pages
Paperback, 21 x 14.8 cm
Published September 2018
ISBN 9781925336955

Aqua Spinach

Luke Beesley

Aqua Spinach rounds out a trilogy of books interested in the affinities between poetry and the visual arts, music and cinema. The poems invoke a playful synaesthesia as they pivot and twist, producing strange and at times absurdist imagery from the ordinary and happenstance. The reader is tipped into humorous, dreamlike scenarios infused with the atmosphere of surrealist cinema – ‘they called him Dylan because he kept a harmonica along his cough’ – each poem a sublime montage that also speaks to the distracted pleasures of contemporary consciousness.

About the Author

Luke Beesley

Luke Beesley is a writer, artist and singer-songwriter. His latest book, In the Photograph, is shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. In addition to his other highly regarded books, which include Aqua Spinach (2018), Jam Sticky Vision (2015) and New Works on Paper (2013), his poetry has been published widely in Australia and internationally and has been translated into several languages. Luke’s singer-songwriter moniker is Cornflake Sunset – his debut album Double Portrait will be released in October 2024. He lives and works on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land (Naarm/Melbourne).

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