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Lachlan Brown Lachlan Brown i(A90019 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Walking in Isolation (III) i "what plinth-moment is this, allowing the display of bark:", Lachlan Brown , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 103 2021;
1 Any Saturday, 2021: Running Westward Lachlan Brown , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Any Saturday, 2021, Running Westward 2021;
1 Walking in Isolation (II) i "metallic invitation drawing you close as the drain", Lachlan Brown , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 11 no. 1 2021; (p. 64-65)
1 I. Session Pricing i "A fully booked cruise bound for immediate shores,", Lachlan Brown , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January / February no. 418 2020; (p. 54)
1 Ii. Crisis Openings i "Really? A host of change-agents wielding quality degrees", Lachlan Brown , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January / February no. 418 2020; (p. 54)
1 Iii. Processing Is in i "Back to the motorway again, shuffling infinite rows", Lachlan Brown , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January / February no. 418 2020; (p. 54)
1 1 Precision Signs Lachlan Brown , 2020 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January / February no. 418 2020; (p. 54)
1 Lied Ohne Worte: Eating Out on a Thursday Night Which Is Parmi Night i "See that couple, their bodies, as soft as pears,", Lachlan Brown , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Stilts , August no. 1 2018;
1 Chord Voicings and the End of a Financial Year i "battery percentage dropping", Lachlan Brown , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 26 2018; (p. 90-93)
1 Summer Meditation on Autumn Meditation (3) i "Thousands of apartments honeycomb these towers, lit by angled", Lachlan Brown , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 86 2018;
1 Something to Write Home About i "bill evans in the italian countryside", Lachlan Brown , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 22 2017; (p. 44-46)
1 Approaching Winter i "Rice-spilled traffic in the south-west suburbs", Lachlan Brown , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Peril : An Asian Australian Journal , vol. 31 no. 2017;
1 Melanie Cheng, Australia Day Lachlan Brown , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 2 2017; (p. 243-247)

‘Melanie Cheng’s Australia Day (2017) is the latest in the contemporary succession of engaging and innovative collections of short fiction by Australian writers from diverse backgrounds. since the 2008 publication of Nam Le’s The Boat, Australia’s young literary vanguard has announced itself with a series of ambitious volumes. These authors include Ryan O’Neill (The Weight of a Human Heart, 2012), Maxine Beneba Clarke (Foreign Soil, 2014), Ali Alizadeh (Transactions, 2013), Ceridwen Dovey (Only the Animals, 2014), Nic Low (Arms Race, 2014), Michelle Cahill (Letter to Pessoa, 2016), Tara June Winch (After the Carnage, 2016), and Fiona McFarlane (The High Places, 2016). There is something about the short story collection that seems well attuned to contemporary Australian society’s fragmentation and polyphony. Formally, it allows compressed scenes of localised intensity to set themselves within the complex striations of transnational or trans cultural experiences. Such collections have benefitted, perhaps, from readers’ shortened attention spans. But they have also been well positioned to take advantage of the material and cultural gains that are part of the churn and glory of contemporary literary award culture. Cheng and Beneba Clarke both won the Victorian Premier’s unpublished manuscript award with their collections, and Le and McFarlane have each received the prestigious international Dylan Thomas Prize for Young Writers.’ (Introduction)

1 Anti-semantic i "ransacking the future", Lachlan Brown , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 148 2017; (p. 105)
1 5 y separately published work icon Lunar Inheritance Lachlan Brown , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2017 11542525 2017 selected work poetry

'A hoarding Chinese grandmother fills her home with objects, unable to distinguish between the value of things. Meanwhile, her Asian-Australian grandson travels to China for the first time, wary of the revelations that the trip might offer, as he tries to make sense of his own Chinese and Anglo-Australian background. In Guangzhou, Kaiping, Shanghai, and Beijing, amidst the incessant construction and consumption of twenty-first-century China, a shadowy heritage reveals and withholds itself, while the suburbs he knows from back home are threaded into the cities he visits, forming an intricately braided Chinese-Australian inheritance.' (Publication Summary)

1 Ah-Political i "press in hand", Lachlan Brown , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Pencilled In , no. 1 2017; (p. 35)
1 From the Surface of Your Lunar Inheritance i "(miscegenate this)", Lachlan Brown , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Pencilled In , no. 1 2017; (p. 34)
1 Another Responsibility i "I continue to receive the pictures once of twice a year", Lachlan Brown , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Pencilled In , no. 1 2017; (p. 33)
1 Out of Timers i "He’s jamming the scanner so", Lachlan Brown , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 226 2017; (p. 34)
1 Mindfulness Zombie Trust Exercise i "Omphagic colouring-in, like he’s", Lachlan Brown , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 226 2017; (p. 34)
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