Ghost Poetry by Robbie Coburn

Ghost Poetry by Robbie CoburnRobert Adamson wrote that Robbie Coburn's poems "come from tough experiences, yet are created with a muscular craft that glows with alert intelligence". Largely set within stark farmland and surreal, nightmarish dreams, Coburn's new collection of poems, Ghost Poetry, is haunted by depression, trauma, addiction, memory, regret, and the spectre of mutilation and violence inflicted on the human body, accompanied by the desire to leave. But through this,

a coal and timber merchant

White posed the question: what would happen if a group of Australia' s finest storytellers were invited to let their minds go walking through the Paul Kelly songbook

as isolated as we may feel

Situations include men sharing keen insight on the female anatomy

Blackstone

I run like a rabbit

after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders

Elvis wants Rosie

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As a result of this colonial legacy

Dale hopes his story brings freedom to other survivors through gaining a deeper understanding of shame