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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Maze Bright
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'In the 1940s, behavioural psychologists and developmental biologists working in the nascent field of epigenetics coined the term “maze-bright” to describe laboratory rats displaying a marked proficiency in maze navigation. Since then, the term has been deployed across a range of contexts, most notably in HR parlance to describe ‘attractive hires’.

This suite of poems seizes on the semantic pluripotency of its titular motif, transposing it into the early twenty-first century cultural keys of gaming (“パックマン Étude”), cinema (“Magic Hour, LA”, “Cinemetabolic”), finance and insurance (“To His Coy Investor”, “Act of God”), extreme sports (“Wingsuit Journal”), psychogeography (“Citicity”), post-colonial deracination (“Nick Cave at Buckingham Palace”) and others.' (Publication summary)

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Vagabond Press , 2014 .
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      Series: y separately published work icon Rare Object Series Vagabond Press Rare Object Series Vagabond Press (publisher), Sydney : Vagabond Press , 1999- Z1899457 1999- series - publisher poetry '... Vagabond Press started with the Rare Object Series in July 1999, publishing two small chapbooks of poetry by David Brooks and Nick Riemer. More than a decade later the series is still going strong and has emerged as an iconic publishing venture in Australian poetry, bringing together the key emerging and established Australian poets at the turn into the twenty-first century, and being remarkable for the quality of the work published and the design and production values. Originally based on a combination of the design values of French press Fata Morgana and Neil Astley's beautiful Poetical Histories series, the Rare Objects are remarkable for the cover art produced by Kay Orchison, exquisitely conceived and designed in response to each poet's work. The chapbooks are printed in limited editions of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the author. ...' (Vagabond Press website) Number in series: 99

Works about this Work

Christopher Brown Reviews Maze Bright by Jaya Savige Chris Brown , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , April no. 17 2015;

— Review of Maze Bright Jaya Savige , 2014 selected work poetry
A Reader Runner in a Maze Bright : Hamish Danks Brown Reviews ‘Maze Bright’ by Jaya Savige Hamish Danks Brown , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , June - September no. 12 2014;

— Review of Maze Bright Jaya Savige , 2014 selected work poetry
A Reader Runner in a Maze Bright : Hamish Danks Brown Reviews ‘Maze Bright’ by Jaya Savige Hamish Danks Brown , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , June - September no. 12 2014;

— Review of Maze Bright Jaya Savige , 2014 selected work poetry
Christopher Brown Reviews Maze Bright by Jaya Savige Chris Brown , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , April no. 17 2015;

— Review of Maze Bright Jaya Savige , 2014 selected work poetry
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