There's a party at Collected Works, you're all invited

Giramondo Publishing

warmly invites you

to the launch of the 

new poetry collection by

 

Michael Farrell

open sesame

to be launched by Alan Loney

poet and bookmaker

on Thursday 2 August

6 for 6.30 pm

Collected Works Bookshop
Level 1, 37 Swanston Street

Melbourne

Michael Farrell is highly regarded for the unique rhythms, and the gestural and comic qualities of his poetry. His poems set language, syntax and punctuation in motion, heightening the expression of wonder, drama, attitude: or simply relishing the richness and resonance of each new word situation. His new collection, open sesame, includes sonnets derived from Edna St Vincent Millay (‘saints & or’) and from the British police drama The Bill, a sestina on John F. Kennedy set in a laundry, an improvised parody (‘et tu supermarket’), an Oulipo poem (‘debit of a pirate kino’), and four long poems on friendship. The book concludes with a series of collage poems, including one which takes its cue from the legendary Phar Lap.  

Michael Farrell is the winner of the 2012 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. An earlier version of open sesame won the Barrett Reid award for a radical poetry manuscript. 

http://www.giramondopublishing.com/open-sesame

 Enquiries: aliceg@giramondopublishing.com

I did hope to get to this but I will not be spared, unfortunately.

The launches at Kris Hemensley's Collected Works are inviting affairs. Take another poetry lover along, and be prepared to succumb to the temptation of purchasing something special - there are some amazing books there.