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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous
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'Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous is a work of wild erudition and rococo elaboration, a collection of poems that loosely channels the dynamic of desire and inhibition in Thomas Mann’s novella Death in Venice. The poems follow the trajectory of the ageing Aschenbach’s pursuit of youth and beauty, transmuting his yearning and resistance into jittery flirtations with longing, decay and abandonment against a backdrop of political violence. The poems have an exuberant candour, formed by polyphonic allusions which enact the intersectionality of the speaker; by turns melodramatic, flirtatious, satirical. Like the tragic protagonist of Death in Venice, Cayanan’s collection manifests a longing for extroversion sabotaged by its own will. It is a queer performance of anxiety and abeyance, in which the poems’ speakers obsessively rehearse who they are, and what they may be if finally spoken to.'

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    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2021 .
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      Extent: 128p.p.
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      • Published April 2021.
      ISBN: 9781925818697

Works about this Work

Blurring the Lines : Three New Poetry Collections James Antoniou , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 432 2021; (p. 55-56)

— Review of Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous Mark Anthony Cayanan , 2021 selected work poetry ; Errant Night Jerzy Beaumont , 2021 selected work poetry ; I Said the Sea Was Folded : Love Poems Erik Jensen , 2021 selected work poetry
Blurring the Lines : Three New Poetry Collections James Antoniou , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 432 2021; (p. 55-56)

— Review of Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous Mark Anthony Cayanan , 2021 selected work poetry ; Errant Night Jerzy Beaumont , 2021 selected work poetry ; I Said the Sea Was Folded : Love Poems Erik Jensen , 2021 selected work poetry
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