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'These offbeat, fragmentary yet often discursive poems were written over three years up to spring 2015. In part, they epitomize the absurdities of contemporary materialism. Pam Brown's well-practised scepticism dismantles monumental intent and splices the remains into a shrewd melange of imagery and thoughtful lyric complemented by playfulness. For Pam writing poetry is a habit, a disorganised ritual. Her poetic inventories begin in everyday bricolage. Real things interrupt the poems the same way thoughts and phrases do. You know - the fridge over there, the bus stop, surf music on a radio, a raisin squashed against a floor tile - always backgrounding a connection to the 'social' as the poems make political and personal associative links. Though disquiet is present it is usually temporary - an optimistic wit plays through this idiosyncratic poetry as a kind of placebo. But, in the end, Pam Brown simply lets the language do the work.' (Publication summary)
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Anne Stuart Reviews Missing up by Pam Brown
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , August 2017;
— Review of Missing Up 2015 selected work poetry -
Review Short : Pam Brown’s Missing up
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 October no. 52.0 2015;
— Review of Missing Up 2015 selected work poetry
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Review Short : Pam Brown’s Missing up
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 October no. 52.0 2015;
— Review of Missing Up 2015 selected work poetry -
Anne Stuart Reviews Missing up by Pam Brown
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , August 2017;
— Review of Missing Up 2015 selected work poetry