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A novel in verse form.
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Author's note:
dedicated to
Laura Hope-Gill
who wanted to hear the story
from go to whoa
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Australia in Three Books : Π.O.
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2024;
— Review of Heide 2019 selected work poetry ; Fitzroy : The Biography 2015 selected work poetry ; The Tour 2023 single work novel 'Though known by his business cards as a famous poet, π.O. is foremost an anarchist landscape artist working against the sanitised tradition of the state-sanctioned pastoral (an institution that makes colonial settlement possible).' (Introduction) -
Getting Shirty
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , February 2024;
— Review of The Tour 2023 single work novel'It’s a classic. It feels good. I’m talking about a poem. And I’m talking about a t-shirt. What’s a t-shirt? A t-shirt is something an Australian poet on an international tour with three others might wear. A t-shirt is something an Australian poet on tour with three others might wear and wash, or refuse to wash; might refuse to stop wearing. I’m talking about π.O.’s tour t-shirt. I’m talking about π.O.’s dirty t-shirt tour, which materialises here, four decades later, as the chronicle-in-verse called The Tour.' (Introduction)
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Eyewash, Irreverence and a Bruce Springsteen Concert : On the Road with a Pioneering Performance Poet
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 13 November 2023;
— Review of The Tour 2023 single work novel -
'Scrape the Side!' : Π.O. in America
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 459 2023; (p. 36)
— Review of The Tour 2023 single work novel'In 1985, five (or four, depending on the source) Australian poets went on a sixteen-city reading tour of the United States and Canada. Π.O. was one of them. Originally titled ‘The Dirty T-Shirt Tour’, The Tour is ostensibly Π.O.’s diary of that trip, the dirty T-shirt standing for the narrator’s ‘difference’: his migrant, working-class background; his flouting of social conventions; his ‘performance poet’ status. While the other poets are (repeatedly) washing and ironing in their rooms, he is out walking the streets, making astute observations, meeting interesting people. Π.O. names the well-known poets and lesser entities he befriends and the famous poets he doesn’t meet – the disreputable T-shirt given as one reason for his exclusion – but he omits the identities of the poets on the tour and the tour organisers.' (Introduction)
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Π.O. The Tour
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 16-22 September 2023;
— Review of The Tour 2023 single work novel'Π.O.’s two most recent books were epic in scope and heft. Fitzroy: The Biography was a sprawling history of the Melbourne suburb; Heide, a kaleidoscopic account of art-making and patronage. Both books wielded dizzying accumulations of disparate, sometimes incredible, facts and stories against monolithic authority.' (Introduction)
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Π.O. The Tour
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 16-22 September 2023;
— Review of The Tour 2023 single work novel'Π.O.’s two most recent books were epic in scope and heft. Fitzroy: The Biography was a sprawling history of the Melbourne suburb; Heide, a kaleidoscopic account of art-making and patronage. Both books wielded dizzying accumulations of disparate, sometimes incredible, facts and stories against monolithic authority.' (Introduction)
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'Scrape the Side!' : Π.O. in America
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 459 2023; (p. 36)
— Review of The Tour 2023 single work novel'In 1985, five (or four, depending on the source) Australian poets went on a sixteen-city reading tour of the United States and Canada. Π.O. was one of them. Originally titled ‘The Dirty T-Shirt Tour’, The Tour is ostensibly Π.O.’s diary of that trip, the dirty T-shirt standing for the narrator’s ‘difference’: his migrant, working-class background; his flouting of social conventions; his ‘performance poet’ status. While the other poets are (repeatedly) washing and ironing in their rooms, he is out walking the streets, making astute observations, meeting interesting people. Π.O. names the well-known poets and lesser entities he befriends and the famous poets he doesn’t meet – the disreputable T-shirt given as one reason for his exclusion – but he omits the identities of the poets on the tour and the tour organisers.' (Introduction)
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Eyewash, Irreverence and a Bruce Springsteen Concert : On the Road with a Pioneering Performance Poet
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 13 November 2023;
— Review of The Tour 2023 single work novel -
Getting Shirty
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , February 2024;
— Review of The Tour 2023 single work novel'It’s a classic. It feels good. I’m talking about a poem. And I’m talking about a t-shirt. What’s a t-shirt? A t-shirt is something an Australian poet on an international tour with three others might wear. A t-shirt is something an Australian poet on tour with three others might wear and wash, or refuse to wash; might refuse to stop wearing. I’m talking about π.O.’s tour t-shirt. I’m talking about π.O.’s dirty t-shirt tour, which materialises here, four decades later, as the chronicle-in-verse called The Tour.' (Introduction)
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Australia in Three Books : Π.O.
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2024;
— Review of Heide 2019 selected work poetry ; Fitzroy : The Biography 2015 selected work poetry ; The Tour 2023 single work novel 'Though known by his business cards as a famous poet, π.O. is foremost an anarchist landscape artist working against the sanitised tradition of the state-sanctioned pastoral (an institution that makes colonial settlement possible).' (Introduction)
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