Michael Aiken - The Little Book of Sunlight & Maggots - Book Launch
Sat, 15 June
|Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead
Join us for the launch of local and critically acclaimed poet Michael Aiken's new collection, The Little Book of Sunlight & Maggots. To be launched by Luke Fischer.
Time & Location
15 June 2019, 4:00 pm
Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead, 265 King Street, Newtown NSW, Australia
Guests
About The Event
Join us for the launch of local, and critically acclaimed, poet Michael Aiken's new collection, The Little Book of Sunlight & Maggots. To be launched by Luke Fischer.
About the Book
The Little Book of Sunlight & Maggots is the third book of poetry from critically acclaimed Sydney writer Michael Aiken. Following on from his 2018 verse novel Satan Repentant, this latest book is a collection of new and collected shorter poems about the world around us.
Praise
"Pathos meets humour in Michael Aiken's eco-urban world of devasting settler contingencies, commuter ennui, and weedy exuberance. Enjoyable and witty, spare and songful, these poems are unsentimentally attentive to the other than humans that share our suburbs. The Little Book of Sunlight and Maggots is both open-eyed and uncannily hopeful in its engagements with the tragic overlay of concrete on Country." - Anne Elvey, Managing Editor Plumwood Mountain, an Australian journal o…
Tickets
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Your ticket to the launch, plus a pre-ordered copy of The Little Book of Sunlight and Maggots.
$22.99
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