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for Mme Zemiro & Mme Nhu
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Christopher Brown Reviews Pam Brown and Nicholas Powell
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;
— Review of Stasis Shuffle 2021 selected work poetry ; Trap Landscape 2022 selected work poetry -
Nostalgic Block
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2022;
— Review of Stasis Shuffle 2021 selected work poetry -
Nostalgic Block
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , September vol. 81 no. 3 2022; (p. 202-206)
— Review of Stasis Shuffle 2021 selected work poetry 'Pam Brown’s poems are distinctively droll, though never fatalistic. They are most often medium-to-long poems made of short lines with shifting indentation and alignment across the page, and which accrete through fragmentation. Themes and ideas are rarely linear and rather resonate laterally. Michael Brennan in Poetry International has described a typical Pam Brown poem as ‘like a particle map, a range of trajectories arcing off into open space, determining that space through movement, velocity and the inertia created, at times shocking associated bodies (poetic, politic, cultural, critical) into action and reaction’. And Michael Farrell, in the Sydney Review of Books on click here for what we do (2018), notes: ‘The poems question what can be said, what can be said about what is said, as well as how can what can be said be presented.’ (Introduction) -
What Colour Is Bitcoin? : Pam Brown’s Lively New Collection
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 442 2022; (p. 48)
— Review of Stasis Shuffle 2021 selected work poetry'The reader of Stasis Shuffle is immediately confronted with the collection’s naming convention. Titles of poems and sections are parenthesised, for example, ‘(best before)’, ‘(weevils)’, ‘(& then). More than simple stylisation, this convention suggests that every poem is a fragment, a meander through consciousness. The first poem, ‘(best before)’, begins ‘liberated / from the drudgery / of usefulness’, a quote from Walter Benjamin. From there, Stasis Shuffle wanders flâneur-style through language, politics, and many different kinds of plant life. The central arc of Stasis Shuffle, however, is its self-consciousness about subjectivity and process. ‘(best before)’ asks ‘is your slowly accreting poem / morphing into a larger cloud yet’? As the collection unfolds, poems begin to comment on themselves and the writing process.' (Publication summary)
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What Colour Is Bitcoin? : Pam Brown’s Lively New Collection
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 442 2022; (p. 48)
— Review of Stasis Shuffle 2021 selected work poetry'The reader of Stasis Shuffle is immediately confronted with the collection’s naming convention. Titles of poems and sections are parenthesised, for example, ‘(best before)’, ‘(weevils)’, ‘(& then). More than simple stylisation, this convention suggests that every poem is a fragment, a meander through consciousness. The first poem, ‘(best before)’, begins ‘liberated / from the drudgery / of usefulness’, a quote from Walter Benjamin. From there, Stasis Shuffle wanders flâneur-style through language, politics, and many different kinds of plant life. The central arc of Stasis Shuffle, however, is its self-consciousness about subjectivity and process. ‘(best before)’ asks ‘is your slowly accreting poem / morphing into a larger cloud yet’? As the collection unfolds, poems begin to comment on themselves and the writing process.' (Publication summary)
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Nostalgic Block
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , September vol. 81 no. 3 2022; (p. 202-206)
— Review of Stasis Shuffle 2021 selected work poetry 'Pam Brown’s poems are distinctively droll, though never fatalistic. They are most often medium-to-long poems made of short lines with shifting indentation and alignment across the page, and which accrete through fragmentation. Themes and ideas are rarely linear and rather resonate laterally. Michael Brennan in Poetry International has described a typical Pam Brown poem as ‘like a particle map, a range of trajectories arcing off into open space, determining that space through movement, velocity and the inertia created, at times shocking associated bodies (poetic, politic, cultural, critical) into action and reaction’. And Michael Farrell, in the Sydney Review of Books on click here for what we do (2018), notes: ‘The poems question what can be said, what can be said about what is said, as well as how can what can be said be presented.’ (Introduction) -
Nostalgic Block
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2022;
— Review of Stasis Shuffle 2021 selected work poetry -
Christopher Brown Reviews Pam Brown and Nicholas Powell
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;
— Review of Stasis Shuffle 2021 selected work poetry ; Trap Landscape 2022 selected work poetry
