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Amy Brown Amy Brown i(A129734 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: New Zealander
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1 1 y separately published work icon Neon Daze Amy Brown , Auckland : Upstart Press , 2019 20329616 2019 selected work poetry

'Neon Daze is a verse journal of the first four months of motherhood. As these poems trace the dramatic reconfiguring of one's world, they also upend genre and notions of linear time. Guided by radical honesty, grace, wit, and her distinctive command of language, Amy Brown's third poetry collection searches restlessly for a way to map a self that is now `part large and old, part new and small'.' (Publication summary)
1 This Is the Book for You : Amy Brown Launches ‘Redactor’ by Eddie Paterson Amy Brown , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , January – March no. 21 2017; ‘This is the book for you’ is the title of a satirical, distilled review, which begins ‘joan collins is an extraordinary orchid of evil & beauty’; it also happens to be true of redactor – whatever “true” means these days. This is the book for you, because of its acute timeliness. With wit and sagacity, Eddie Paterson’s latest collection of poems seems to herald and ward against several recent dystopian events. ' (Introduction)
1 Snake i "We are following a track that loops", Amy Brown , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Victoria 2016;
1 Map i "When it was nearly still acceptable", Amy Brown , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Victoria 2016;
1 Luck i "The board game Holiday was set", Amy Brown , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Victoria 2016;
1 Fear i "The university plovers are fat and silent,", Amy Brown , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Victoria 2016;
1 Experiment i "Preserving jars filled to the brim", Amy Brown , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Victoria 2016;
1 Cranes i "The Docklands cranes that hoist containers", Amy Brown , 2016 extract poetry
— Appears in: States of Poetry : Victoria 2016;
1 Review Short : Π.O.’s Fitzroy: the Biography Amy Brown , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , April no. 53.1 2016;
— Review of Fitzroy : The Biography TT. O , 2015 selected work poetry
1 Assembling the Australian Epic Amy Brown , 2015 single work interview
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , November vol. 5 no. 2 2015; 'This paper is an assemblage of excerpts from a three-hour interview I conducted with Melbourne poet Π.O. in February 2013 at his home in Preston. Having recently completed a PhD dissertation examining Π.O.’s 1996 epic poem, 24 Hours, I had a number of questions about the 740-page, phonetic meditation on the suburb of Fitzroy. From the original 13,000-word interview transcript, I have chosen to focus on discussions of Π.O.’s methods in writing 24 Hours, his epic-in-progress The Everything Poem, and his sense of identity as an Australian epic poet.' (Publication abstract)
1 Flying Close to the Sun Amy Brown , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 19 no. 1 2015;
— Review of South in the World Lisa Jacobson , 2014 selected work poetry
1 Environmental Empathy in the Contemporary Epic : Exploring Ephemeral Waters and Phosphorescence of Thought Amy Brown , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain : An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics , August vol. 1 no. 2 2014;
1 Rummaging in Our Souls Amy Brown , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing , October vol. 18 no. 2 2014;
— Review of Cleaning Out the Closet Mary Pomfret , 2014 selected work short story
1 Heart of Lightness Amy Brown , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 18 no. 1 2014;
— Review of Cokcraco : A Novel in Ten Cockroaches Paul Williams , 2013 single work novel
1 From : 'Our Effects' Amy Brown , 2014 extract poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , Summer no. 11 2014; (p. 131-133)
1 Review Short : Lucy Todd’s Listening to the Mopokes Go Amy Brown , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December no. 44.0 2013;
— Review of Listening to the Mopokes Go Lucy Todd , 2013 selected work poetry
1 Review Short Lachlan Brown’s ‘Limited Cities’ Amy Brown , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 June no. 42 2013;
— Review of Limited Cities Lachlan Brown , 2012 selected work poetry
1 Lungs Like Birds i "Consumption has a particular odour", Amy Brown , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 2 no. 1 2012; (p. 6-7)
1 PiO's 24 Hours : Ulysses in Fitzroy Amy Brown , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , December no. 31 2009; 24 Hours, an encyclopedic portrait of Fitzroy in the 1990s, was rejected by six publishers before being published by Collective Effort Press, the members of which are thanked on page 4. On page 2, there is a poetic version of the legal disclaimer ('All characters in this book/ are fictitious. Any resemblance/ to anyone living or dead/ i consider/ a compliment.') and on page 3 a dedication to his sister Athena ('He's great/ He's fantastic/ I'm brilliant/ I'm his sister'). In a commercially published book, these opening pages wouldn't be remarkable, but, as Pi.O. has complete creative control over 24 Hours-from the quote on page 5 ('Don't quote me;/ That's what you heard/ not what/ i said./ - Lawrence K. Frank') to the type-writer font and layout, author-drawn sketches and symbols throughout, right up to the photograph on the final page of the appendix-all aspects of the book as an artifact appear to influence the poem as an annotation. As his voice, face and gesture would be inextricably linked to the performance of his poetry, so too is the book's appearance important to Pi.O.'s written poetry, particularly in the case of 24 Hours.
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