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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 The Alarming Conservatory
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'Acclaimed poet Corey Wakeling’s second collection continues his inquiry into language and the spatial architectures of history and culture. Set among 20th century ruins, the poems are cast as if hallucinations: colonial-style houses are ‘guarded by palm trees’, Royal Park ‘detains two immoveable statues’ while the ‘Wheel of Fortune dizzies’. The poems range throughout Melbourne and Western Australia, where the poet has lived, and further afield too. Strong in its deployment of baroque imagery and modernist citation, The Alarming Conservatory uniquely captures the fear and pace of our contemporary condition.'  (Publication abstract)

Notes

  • Dedication: To George Wakeling, autodidact of camera, aircraft, and conservatory 1930-2017.

  • Epigraph: He took you for a bubble gum American, but now finds that you speak kangaroo English. - Barista at the Hamburger Banhof in Berlin.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2017 .
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      Extent: 256p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 December 2017

      ISBN: 9781925336610

Works about this Work

Never Pressing the Snooze Button : A Review of Corey Wakeling’s ‘The Alarming Conservatory’ Robert Wood , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2018 2018;

— Review of The Alarming Conservatory Corey Wakeling , 2017 selected work poetry
Review Short : Corey Wakeling’s The Alarming Conservatory Ella Skilbeck-Porter , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 November no. 88 2018;

— Review of The Alarming Conservatory Corey Wakeling , 2017 selected work poetry
Review Short : Corey Wakeling’s The Alarming Consevatory [sic] Ella Skilbeck-Porter , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 87 2018;

— Review of The Alarming Conservatory Corey Wakeling , 2017 selected work poetry

'The Sydney launch of Corey Wakeling’s second collection of poetry The Alarming Consevatory at Frontyard Projects in Marrickville upended the traditional build up of acts that most expect from a poetry launch, with poets reading in an order drawn from a hat. The environment is amicable and warm, with young children running and playing and affectionately stealing attention from the readers by unwittingly performing alongside of them.' (Introduction)

Review Short : Corey Wakeling’s The Alarming Consevatory [sic] Ella Skilbeck-Porter , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , August no. 87 2018;

— Review of The Alarming Conservatory Corey Wakeling , 2017 selected work poetry

'The Sydney launch of Corey Wakeling’s second collection of poetry The Alarming Consevatory at Frontyard Projects in Marrickville upended the traditional build up of acts that most expect from a poetry launch, with poets reading in an order drawn from a hat. The environment is amicable and warm, with young children running and playing and affectionately stealing attention from the readers by unwittingly performing alongside of them.' (Introduction)

Review Short : Corey Wakeling’s The Alarming Conservatory Ella Skilbeck-Porter , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 November no. 88 2018;

— Review of The Alarming Conservatory Corey Wakeling , 2017 selected work poetry
Never Pressing the Snooze Button : A Review of Corey Wakeling’s ‘The Alarming Conservatory’ Robert Wood , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2018 2018;

— Review of The Alarming Conservatory Corey Wakeling , 2017 selected work poetry
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