Stasis Shuffle / Pam Brown
Winner: Judith Wright Calanthe Award, Queensland Literary Awards
Shortlisted: Kenneth Slessor Prize, NSW Premier's Literary Awards
ISBN: 9780648848110
Stasis Shuffle plays with style and experiments with form. The poems are fragmentary and discursive, knowing and wry; bursting with jokes, wordplay, strange observation, and personal revelation.
Pam Brown’s poetry maps the edges of thought, turning with a flash of discovery to think ‘what cannot be thought’. This is a significant new collection by one of Australia’s most singular and influential contemporary poets.
ISBN: 9780648848110
“If you want – and who doesn’t? – a poet who effects a transfiguration of the commonplace, it is Pam Brown.’”
“This is a lively, sharp, and entertaining collection from a veteran poet who has mastered her craft.”
Pam Brown has been writing, collaborating, editing and publishing in diverse modes for five decades. A number of her many books have been on the shortlists and have sometimes won the prize. In 2019 her collection of four long poems click here for what we do (Vagabond Press) was awarded the annual ALS Gold Medal. She lives in Sydney on never-ceded Gadigal land.
