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  • Author:agent Pamela Brown http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/brown-pam
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Stasis Shuffle
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'In Stasis Shuffle Pam Brown continues to write a poetry that maps the edges of thought, to think ‘what cannot / be thought’. This collection plays with style and turns its attention to both personal friendships and formal experimentation. The poems are fragmentary and discursive, knowing and wry; bursting with jokes, wordplay, strange observation and striking thoughts that unfold with the sudden joy of discovery. This is a significant new collection by one of Australia’s most influential contemporary poets.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Author's note:

    for Mme Zemiro & Mme Nhu

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Hunter Publishers , 2021 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 112p.
      Note/s:
      • Published December 2021.
      ISBN: 9780648848110

Works about this Work

Christopher Brown Reviews Pam Brown and Nicholas Powell Christopher Brown , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;

— Review of Stasis Shuffle Pamela Brown , 2021 selected work poetry ; Trap Landscape Nick Powell , 2022 selected work poetry
Nostalgic Block Toby Fitch , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2022;

— Review of Stasis Shuffle Pamela Brown , 2021 selected work poetry
Nostalgic Block Toby Fitch , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , September vol. 81 no. 3 2022; (p. 202-206)

— Review of Stasis Shuffle Pamela Brown , 2021 selected work poetry
'Pam Brown’s poems are distinctively droll, though never fatalistic. They are most often medium-to-long poems made of short lines with shifting indentation and alignment across the page, and which accrete through fragmentation. Themes and ideas are rarely linear and rather resonate laterally. Michael Brennan in Poetry International has described a typical Pam Brown poem as ‘like a particle map, a range of trajectories arcing off into open space, determining that space through movement, velocity and the inertia created, at times shocking associated bodies (poetic, politic, cultural, critical) into action and reaction’. And Michael Farrell, in the Sydney Review of Books on click here for what we do (2018), notes: ‘The poems question what can be said, what can be said about what is said, as well as how can what can be said be presented.’ (Introduction)
What Colour Is Bitcoin? : Pam Brown’s Lively New Collection Chris Arnold , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 442 2022; (p. 48)

— Review of Stasis Shuffle Pamela Brown , 2021 selected work poetry

'The reader of Stasis Shuffle is immediately confronted with the collection’s naming convention. Titles of poems and sections are parenthesised, for example, ‘(best before)’, ‘(weevils)’, ‘(& then). More than simple stylisation, this convention suggests that every poem is a fragment, a meander through consciousness. The first poem, ‘(best before)’, begins ‘liberated / from the drudgery / of usefulness’, a quote from Walter Benjamin. From there, Stasis Shuffle wanders flâneur-style through language, politics, and many different kinds of plant life. The central arc of Stasis Shuffle, however, is its self-consciousness about subjectivity and process. ‘(best before)’ asks ‘is your slowly accreting poem / morphing into a larger cloud yet’? As the collection unfolds, poems begin to comment on themselves and the writing process.' (Publication summary)

What Colour Is Bitcoin? : Pam Brown’s Lively New Collection Chris Arnold , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 442 2022; (p. 48)

— Review of Stasis Shuffle Pamela Brown , 2021 selected work poetry

'The reader of Stasis Shuffle is immediately confronted with the collection’s naming convention. Titles of poems and sections are parenthesised, for example, ‘(best before)’, ‘(weevils)’, ‘(& then). More than simple stylisation, this convention suggests that every poem is a fragment, a meander through consciousness. The first poem, ‘(best before)’, begins ‘liberated / from the drudgery / of usefulness’, a quote from Walter Benjamin. From there, Stasis Shuffle wanders flâneur-style through language, politics, and many different kinds of plant life. The central arc of Stasis Shuffle, however, is its self-consciousness about subjectivity and process. ‘(best before)’ asks ‘is your slowly accreting poem / morphing into a larger cloud yet’? As the collection unfolds, poems begin to comment on themselves and the writing process.' (Publication summary)

Nostalgic Block Toby Fitch , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , September vol. 81 no. 3 2022; (p. 202-206)

— Review of Stasis Shuffle Pamela Brown , 2021 selected work poetry
'Pam Brown’s poems are distinctively droll, though never fatalistic. They are most often medium-to-long poems made of short lines with shifting indentation and alignment across the page, and which accrete through fragmentation. Themes and ideas are rarely linear and rather resonate laterally. Michael Brennan in Poetry International has described a typical Pam Brown poem as ‘like a particle map, a range of trajectories arcing off into open space, determining that space through movement, velocity and the inertia created, at times shocking associated bodies (poetic, politic, cultural, critical) into action and reaction’. And Michael Farrell, in the Sydney Review of Books on click here for what we do (2018), notes: ‘The poems question what can be said, what can be said about what is said, as well as how can what can be said be presented.’ (Introduction)
Nostalgic Block Toby Fitch , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2022;

— Review of Stasis Shuffle Pamela Brown , 2021 selected work poetry
Christopher Brown Reviews Pam Brown and Nicholas Powell Christopher Brown , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;

— Review of Stasis Shuffle Pamela Brown , 2021 selected work poetry ; Trap Landscape Nick Powell , 2022 selected work poetry
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