Summary
Road Trip Rhythms: A Verse Chronicle of Poetry’s Early Days
A chronicle of the early days of performance poetry, presented as a road trip in verse by one of its greatest practitioners.
This book-length verse narrative is about a so-called ‘Dirty T-Shirt Tour’, on which a group of Australian poets travel to cities in the United States and Canada in the mid-1980s, to give readings. It is composed as a diary, written from the point of view of one of the poets, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922725769 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922725765 |
| Author: | PI.O. |
| Publisher: | Giramondo Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Giramondo Publishing Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 212mm x 210mm |
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About The Author
PI.O.
Pi.O. is a legendary figure in the Australian poetry scene, born in Greece and brought up in Fitzroy, the chronicler of Melbourne and its culture and migrations, a highly disciplined anarchist who has worked as a draughtsman for forty years to support his art. He is a publisher and editor, and the author of many collections, including Fitzroy Poems, Big Numbers: New and Selected Poems, and the epic works 24 Hours, Fitzroy: The Biography, and Heide, published by Giramondo in 2019, which won the 2020 Judith Wright Calanthe Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry.
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