{"product_id":"50-50-poems-by-pam-brown","title":"'50-50: Poems' by Pam Brown","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"auto\"\u003ePam Brown’s \u003cem\u003e50-50\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetry collection built from overheard speech, travel, suburbia, bars, streets, music, memories and politics.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eBrown’s poems resist the grand lyrical gesture in favour of fragments, shifts in register and strangely precise observations, letting thought wander across the page rather than forcing it into a neat argument. Published in 1997, it belongs to a long-running Australian experimental tradition concerned with what language sounds like once poetry stops pretending everyday speech is beneath it. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe collection moves through Sydney fast and loose, its typography and spacing doing almost as much work as punctuation. Poems such as “In Ultimo” turn the city into a field of minor encounters, objects and digressions, while elsewhere cultural references—from Nina Simone to modernism—arrive almost casually and then disappear again. Brown’s method is collage-like, particularly good on nostalgia, place and the mental sediment left by cities. \u003cem\u003e50-50\u003c\/em\u003e was Brown’s twelfth poetry collection and is now a relatively uncommon example of late-1990s Australian independent poetry publishing. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLittle Esther Books \/ South Australian Publishing Ventures \u0026amp; Futures Inc., Adelaide, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Light shelf wear and handling to covers; minor marks and edge wear. Internally clean and unmarked; binding firm. Very good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46364336390227,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-09-18T174317.175.png?v=1789719389","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/50-50-poems-by-pam-brown","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}