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.”