Content / Liam Ferney
Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards
Finalist: Judith Wright Calanthe Award, Queensland Literary Awards.
In his latest collection, Liam Ferney focuses on the deep contradictions at the heart of modern life. This is fast-paced poetry that is explosive, critical, and engaged.
Ferney uses the argot of politics and the internet to tackle religion, war, love, and late capitalism.
Content charts and parodies a hypertextual world, engrossed in media while passionately
critical of their effects.
Liam Ferney is the author of Popular Mechanics(2004), Boom (2013), and Hot Take (2018) His poetry has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the Kenneth Slessor Prize, and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and has been translated into Korean and Mandarin. He lives in Brisbane.
“Content lampoons and laments the narcissism that accompanies the supposed information age … Ferney’s poems gun their way through a globalised economy with acronyms, diminutives, and inventive linguistic flares.”
