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Peter Jerrim Peter Jerrim i(A3940 works by) (a.k.a. Peter Henry Jerrim)
Born: Established: 1948 Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania, ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon P0sthuman - The Evening Before Peter Jerrim , West Hobart : Peter Jerrim , 2023 27216668 2023 selected work poetry

'Sensuous, intelligent, energising and dizzyingly fast-paced. Anne Kellas

'Elegant, lyrical, often erotic and always intriguing. Amanda Lohrey

'Irrepressible vitality. David Mason

'In these poems of love, heartbreak, loss and desire the author reimagines his past to find hints of the beings who could come after us.

'He identifies in the commonality of human experience the seeds of a posthuman future. But this book is not prophetic. It's about 'the evening before'. Can we read the past as love song, tragedy, or science fiction? What is it be human? Or to be 'p0sthuman'?

'And what is it to love, and be loved? Is it the quest for the other, the vulnerable human who in the end sees the sum of their life evaporate?

'Here are elusive and exhilarating poems about our necessary, vulnerable existence.

'Wry, heartbreaking, breezy, ecstatic... Peter Jerrim's poems bounce off each other, or appear to suddenly merge as their meaning begins to reveal itself.' (Publication summary)
1 Once Was Pink i "there's the word again", Peter Jerrim , 2004 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , May vol. 12 no. 4 2004; (p. 9)
1 Improbable Romance 4 : The Pleasant Incident of the Nurse in the Night-Time i "just out of intensive care", Peter Jerrim , 2004 single work poetry
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , December no. 30 2004; (p. 110-111)
1 White Sailors Peter Jerrim , 1999-2001 single work novel young adult science fiction
— Appears in: Axel-and-Alice 1999-2001; Lequila is a nat, trained for trouble in a world where nothing is what it seems to be. Bryan is a glit, imprisoned in his diamond skin, condemned to struggle with the nats...until he saves Lequila from a fate worse than even she can imagine - from website.
1 y separately published work icon Axel-and-Alice Axel and Alice Peter Jerrim , Hobart : Eramana , 1999-2001 Z1054335 1999-2001 website children's This is an online fiction work about 'a bunch of kids who go to a weird school at the bottom of Australia'. Also included are letters, poems, children's advice column, school projects, novels, a teacher's diary and additional works contributed by children.
2 1 Spaceworld Rolling Peter Jerrim , Melbourne : Collins Dove , 1990 Z546142 1990 single work novel young adult science fiction
— Appears in: Axel-and-Alice 1999-2001;
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