{"product_id":"text-thing-by-pam-brown","title":"'text thing' by pam brown","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"28\" data-end=\"627\"\u003epam brown’s \u003cem data-start=\"40\" data-end=\"52\"\u003etext thing\u003c\/em\u003e is a slim, sharp little poetry collection, all of which have that loose, talky, jagged energy she is famed for. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"28\" data-end=\"627\"\u003eWithin, there's fragments, asides, jokes, observations, small hostilities, sudden tenderness, and lines that feel like they’ve been lifted from the street, the notebook, the overheard conversation, the half-finished email, the day that got away from you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"629\" data-end=\"1291\"\u003eThis is very much contemporary Australian poetry in its lived-in, anti-grand mode: casual on the surface, but formally alert; funny without trying to become “light”; suspicious of polish; interested in the texture of actual thinking as it happens. There’s a nice self-aware crankiness to it too — poetry about poetry, readers, blurbs, scenes, boredom, desire, bad design, shopping complexes, traffic, phones, and the minor humiliations of literary life. A good one for readers of Australian poetry, small press poetics, experimental\/plainspoken lyric, Ania Walwicz, joanne burns, Gig Ryan, and people who like poems that know the page is also a social situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1293\" data-end=\"1605\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished by Little Esther Books in 2002, for Feral \u0026amp; Boffin \/ Feral + Distingué. Paperback. ISBN 0958626138. Cover image by Kurt Brereton, with design\/layout credited to Shocking Looking Books and Kim Sutton. Good second-hand condition, with light shelfwear and handling.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45685356855379,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker_53.png?v=1781078358","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/text-thing-by-pam-brown","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}