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Jack retreats to an Airbnb cottage in a small coastal town. As a writer he is pre-occupied with the phenomenon of found people: the Somerton Man, the Gippsland Man, the Isdal Woman, people who are found dead - their identities unknown or erased - and the mysterious pull this has on the public mind. In Blue Bay, as well as encountering the town's colourful inhabitants, Jack befriends Sarah, whose sister Alice is one of the many thousands of peo...

Decades of experience inform Hologrammatical - Philip Salom's new book is full of intricate, dazzling, and defiant poems.' - Toby Davidson Philip Salom's major new collection explores human and natural existence - as life-force and loss, and for diverse symptoms of achievement and folly. His intense scrutiny gives air to the unavoidable complexity of voices raised and voices ignored. Whether it's injury and mortality (our own) or disturbance...

When Peter Porter noted the brilliance of Philip Salom's poems and said they were unlike anything in Australian poetry, he was referring to Sky Poems (1987), an ironic otherworld of the twentieth century and the first book of the Alterworld trilogy. Salom later added The Well Mouth (2005), an underworld of limbo and stopped-life to counter Sky Poems' endless possibilities. Now the accidental realities of Alterworld reach into the twenty-first ...

Playback focuses on Jack Biner, a folklorist and oral historian who travels to the small town of Windrup to collect stories from the locals. His aim is to catalogue the intricacies of rural Australia, but as he begins his interviews he discovers that there has been, in the not too distant past, a number of accidents, the truth of which he is drawn to uncover. One man was shot in the head and rendered speechless. Another has his hand blown off ...

Keine Beschreibung.

Simon reluctantly finds himself at the center of a controversy over two large sculptural spires he has constructed in his suburban backyard in Melbourne. A television interview results in a late-night phone call from a wife in Perth, of whom he has no recollection. Suddenly Simon is plunged into a psychological maelstrom that has at its center a childhood trauma so horrific in its consequences, he gradually realizes that he has been trying to ...

This brilliant new collection by Philip Salom recalls his internationally acclaimed Sky Poems and confirms his reputation as one of Australia's major poets of imagination and narrative invention. At the bottom of a well, a woman who has been murdered and dumped by corrupt police dreams the voices of people who have recently died. Deep underground, she is the silent witness and narrator of their earth poemsas she drifts in artesian streams towa...