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y separately published work icon Leave Me Alone selected work   poetry  
Note: With Introduction by Melinda Bufton
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Leave Me Alone
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'In this debut full-length collection, Harry Reid takes us through the doors of the office to tour its funny, absurd, and at times terrifying, discontents. With sharp eyes and sharp teeth, Reid appropriates and dissembles corporate spaces and corporate language to create a biting portrait, and a subversive poetics, of work and labour in the twenty-first century.' 

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Cordite Press , 2022 .
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      Extent: 100p.
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      • Published 1st August 2022
      ISBN: 9780648917618
      Series: y separately published work icon CorditeBooks : Series 5 Castlemaine : Cordite Press , 2023 25742530 2023 series - publisher selected work poetry Number in series: 3

Works about this Work

Severance Pay Jocelyn Deane , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2023; Meanjin , Autumn vol. 82 no. 1 2023; (p. 213)

— Review of Leave Me Alone Harry Reid , 2022 selected work poetry

'One of the ironies of Harry Reid’s poetry collection Leave Me Alone—in essence an order, a knee-jerk response, the default state of interacting with co-workers as they try to send you memes from The Office over the group WhatsApp—is the sense of a conversation overheard, trying to resist becoming a monologue. In this, Leave Me Alone might as well have been written by any poet trying to immortalise a specific guy, a specific summer’s day, a specific era, and the language that subsequently interferes. What is the anonymous, deifying ‘You’ of a sonnet but the precursor to an email chain’s placeholding, or the ‘you’ in Reid’s line, from the section ‘Email Signatures’: ‘I’m happy / to do it & when you / get back I have / an SOP im just dying / to show you?’' (Introduction)

This Is Where the Rat Bastard Poem Comes in Dan Hogan , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , February 2023;

— Review of Leave Me Alone Harry Reid , 2022 selected work poetry
This Is Where the Rat Bastard Poem Comes in Dan Hogan , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , February 2023;

— Review of Leave Me Alone Harry Reid , 2022 selected work poetry
Severance Pay Jocelyn Deane , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2023; Meanjin , Autumn vol. 82 no. 1 2023; (p. 213)

— Review of Leave Me Alone Harry Reid , 2022 selected work poetry

'One of the ironies of Harry Reid’s poetry collection Leave Me Alone—in essence an order, a knee-jerk response, the default state of interacting with co-workers as they try to send you memes from The Office over the group WhatsApp—is the sense of a conversation overheard, trying to resist becoming a monologue. In this, Leave Me Alone might as well have been written by any poet trying to immortalise a specific guy, a specific summer’s day, a specific era, and the language that subsequently interferes. What is the anonymous, deifying ‘You’ of a sonnet but the precursor to an email chain’s placeholding, or the ‘you’ in Reid’s line, from the section ‘Email Signatures’: ‘I’m happy / to do it & when you / get back I have / an SOP im just dying / to show you?’' (Introduction)

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