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Adam Aitken Adam Aitken i(A6079 works by) (a.k.a. Adam Alexander Patrick Aitken)
Born: Established: 1960 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1969
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1 y separately published work icon Adam Aitken Adam Aitken , Z1093035 website

Contains a bibliography of the author's published work and text of an interview with the author by Fiona Probyn, as well as Pam Brown's review of Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles, Aitken's short story 'A Walk in the Cross', a selection of his poetry, and his reviews of Patricia Dobrez' Michael Dransfield's Lives and Alan Jefferies' Blood Angels.

1 Rock Carvings, Sydney Adam Aitken , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Language in My Tongue : An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry 2022; (p. 5-6)
1 Adam Aitken Reviews Spirit Level by Marcelle Freiman Adam Aitken , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 28 2022;

— Review of Spirit Level Marcelle Freiman , 2021 selected work poetry

'Marcelle Freiman’s collection poems Spirit Level, her third book, surely deserves Jill Jones’ endorsement as a book where ‘clarity of memory [sits] alongside a shimmer of location’, whose ‘presences and absences’ are to be savoured. As restless, dynamic, and ‘unsettled’ as her earlier two collections, White Lines and Monkey’s Wedding, (which I reviewed on its publication). This new collection is structured into two parts, the first contains many poems about memories: of childhood in South Africa, of Freiman’s student days as an anti-Apartheid activist, and of parents and Jewish relatives killed and dispersed by the Holocaust. The second part of the collection explores various subjects, with many poems with Australian locations and subjects, including a number of poems on art and photography. Together the poems provide a vivid picture of the life of a South African migrant now settled in Australia. The deeper theme is the poet’s engagement with the past, not so much as nostalgia, but about how her present sensibility is now ineluctably imbricated with these memories. The poems bring a sense of presence to memory and amplify memory’s affective power, because the affect is often tied to traumatic events.'(Introduction)

1 Little Angkor Wat i "Green moats, all our favourite stupas.", Adam Aitken , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit (Architecture) , no. 35 2022; (p. 16-18)
1 High Flyer i "No street or park takes his name.", Adam Aitken , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Guide to Sydney Crime 2022;
1 Aubade i "This image, on waking", Adam Aitken , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 81 no. 1 2022; Meanjin Online 2022;
1 6 y separately published work icon Revenants Adam Aitken , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2022 23614295 2022 selected work poetry

'The title of this collection, Revenants, suggests spirits and ghosts who return to the human world through dream and art, not to haunt it, but to remind the living that the present and the past are intertwined. At the heart of the collection is a series of poems about the poet's father, a Melbournian who travelled and worked in Asia as a young man, who married the poet's mother in Bangkok, and whose life and death are commemorated here. The poems have settings in Asia, Australia, Hawai'i, and France, which has become the author's second home. They reflect on the legacy of colonialism, not as theory, but as inherited experience. In them the poet himself may be thought of as a revenant, sharing his awareness of secret histories and local knowledge, stories of migration, the vestiges of forgotten people and places.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Sunlight on La Grande Rue i "As the train pulled out of Nimes", Adam Aitken , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , 5 5eptember no. 32 2021;
1 Sincerity i "I wanted a father before midnight,", Adam Aitken , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , 5 5eptember no. 32 2021;
1 The Far East i "I remember the school ground:", Adam Aitken , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , 5 5eptember no. 32 2021; Best of Australian Poems 2022 2022; (p. 58)
1 Vespers i "In the vigilant years, when the sunset rises to nothing", Adam Aitken , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
1 On Australian Poetry Publishers Adam Aitken , Angela Stretch , Les Wicks , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 10 no. 2 2021; (p. 137-139)
'In a past year like no other, the collective of our creative community has never been more necessary and is crucial in the shift from survive to thrive mode.  There have been countless acts of generosity, imagination and empathy in the art world and we thank you for you, APJ readers and contributors, for being part of it.' (Introduction)
1 Class Portrait i "Eight or nine, assigned to the front end of the first row,", Adam Aitken , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Peril : An Asian-Australian Journal , no. 42 2020;
1 On Dragons i "What do we offer the beast that terminates the village", Adam Aitken , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , June no. 30 2020; (p. 8-12)
1 Review : Les Wicks' Poetry Collection 'Belief' Adam Aitken , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 12 2019;

— Review of Belief Les Wicks , 2019 selected work poetry
1 The Suspect i "The authorities had planned it", Adam Aitken , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sydney PEN Magazine , November 2019; (p. 47)
1 Mont Aigual i "In the crumbling church", Adam Aitken , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 78 no. 3 2019; (p. 117)
1 Concise, Wittily Memorable & Elegant : Adam Aitken Reviews ‘Urban Gleanings’ by Mark Mahemoff Adam Aitken , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 26 2019;

— Review of Urban Gleanings Mark Mahemoff , 2017 selected work poetry

'Mark Mahemoff’s most recent collection of poems will please a recent critic of Contemporary Australian Poetry, who claimed that there isn’t enough poetry about this city. Mark’s URBAN is my Sydney urban: the train stations are familiar, the aircraft noise, and the people he describes. “This is pure city” he writes, and his poem meticulously distills this quality, which is all out there in the world, but it takes a poet like Mark to find that purity.' (Introduction)

1 Arbitrage i "I sold you the message", Adam Aitken , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quarterly Literary Review Singapore , January vol. 18 no. 1 2019;
1 Velodrome of Spring i "Don't forget who got sent to the camps.", Adam Aitken , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 26 2018; (p. 10-11)
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