Hot Take / Liam Ferney
ISBN: 9780994352897
Finalist: Judith Wright Calanthe Award, Queensland Literary Awards
Something is terribly wrong. The news lurches between horror show and parody. Aeroplanes disappear from radar screens. The Holocene obliterates itself.
Charles Manson. MH-370. Peaches Geldof. Frank O'Hara. Men at Work. St. Augustine. Phillip Hughes. Greta Gerwig. Graham Richardson in dick togs. This is furious poetry for a warming planet.
Hot Take confronts opinion culture in the attention economy, love in the age of Tinder, politics in the age of Brexit and Trump. It will stay with you long after the think pieces are forgotten.
Liam Ferney is the author of Popular Mechanics(2004), Boom (2013), and Content (2016). His poetry has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the Kenneth Slessor Prize, and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. He lives in Brisbane.
“Ferney proves himself to be the rightful heir to the great John Forbes … This is an exhilarating, frequently hilarious, language-driven poetry that shows us precisely where we’re at.”
