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'Young Turk, Furkan Dogan is pumped full of bullet holes, cut down by Israeli gunfire as he and his comrades try to break the Gaza blockade and draw attention to the Palestinian plight. He is only 19.
'An ageing poet pumps himself full of holes with a syringe of insulin to stave off his own demise - the death that came to Furkan too soon.
'The poet remembers not just Furkan's particular murder, but through it he laments the loss of his own beautiful youth. As he speaks to the dead boy through all time 'whenever that was', Barnett recalls his own passionate engagement with the world; his influences, political and cultural, and loves lost.
'In this solemn act of remembering, the poet pulls onto his shoulders the terrible weight of 'this world gone wrong' and bears it for us all.
'Continuing a tradition of Mayakovsky and Hikmet to read to people publicly 'to confront people more than to console them', this is a social poem to 'like' and 'share' mouth to ear.
'In a culture that longs for closure, this will leave all your doors hanging open.' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Launched Melbourne 30 November, Embiggen Books, 197-203 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne
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Dedication:
For my brothers & sisters in struggle;
above all for my collaborators of these last two decades
Thomas Harlan & Stephane Anizon
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Review Short : Christopher Barnett’s When They Came/ For You Elegies/ Of Resistance
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 47.0 2014;
— Review of When They Came for You : Elegies of Resistance 2013 selected work poetry -
Wave After Wave
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2014;
— Review of When They Came for You : Elegies of Resistance 2013 selected work poetry -
When They Came/ for You Elegies/of Resistance – Christopher Barnett’s Melbourne Book Launch.
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , September - November no. 9 2013;
— Review of When They Came for You : Elegies of Resistance 2013 selected work poetry -
2013 in Poetry
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland (Online) , December 2013;
— Review of Hotel Hyperion 2013 selected work poetry ; When They Came for You : Elegies of Resistance 2013 selected work poetry ; Unlocked : Nowra 2013 anthology poetry ; Free Logic 2013 selected work poetry ; Contemporary Asian Australian Poets 2013 anthology poetry ; Women's Work : A Collection of Contemporary Women's Poetry 2013 anthology poetry ; The World Last Night 2012 selected work poetry ; The Mundiad 2004 single work novel ; Audio Overland no. 2 15 February 2013 periodical issue -
The Greatest Australian Poet You've Never Heard Of
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 29 November 2013;
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2013 in Poetry
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland (Online) , December 2013;
— Review of Hotel Hyperion 2013 selected work poetry ; When They Came for You : Elegies of Resistance 2013 selected work poetry ; Unlocked : Nowra 2013 anthology poetry ; Free Logic 2013 selected work poetry ; Contemporary Asian Australian Poets 2013 anthology poetry ; Women's Work : A Collection of Contemporary Women's Poetry 2013 anthology poetry ; The World Last Night 2012 selected work poetry ; The Mundiad 2004 single work novel ; Audio Overland no. 2 15 February 2013 periodical issue -
Wave After Wave
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2014;
— Review of When They Came for You : Elegies of Resistance 2013 selected work poetry -
Review Short : Christopher Barnett’s When They Came/ For You Elegies/ Of Resistance
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 47.0 2014;
— Review of When They Came for You : Elegies of Resistance 2013 selected work poetry -
When They Came/ for You Elegies/of Resistance – Christopher Barnett’s Melbourne Book Launch.
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , September - November no. 9 2013;
— Review of When They Came for You : Elegies of Resistance 2013 selected work poetry -
Book Launch : When They Came / For You Elegies / Of Resistance
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , September - November no. 9 2013; -
The Greatest Australian Poet You've Never Heard Of
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 29 November 2013;