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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Googlecholia
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'The new poetry collection by Michael Farrell, winner of the Judith Wright Calanthe Award.

'The Judith Wright Calanthe Award is Australia’s most prestigious poetry prize. Its award to Michael Farrell marks him out as one of our most important poets. There is no one like him for his souped-up surrealism, the range of his images, his wit and playfulness, his satirical takes on contemporary life.

'The title of his new collection Googlecholia alludes to the range of emotional affects and feelings that the Internet induces: pleasure, satisfaction, joy, melancholy, anxiety, schadenfreude, boredom, nausea. As a many-armed search engine, Google represents both the boundless realms of the Internet, and the reductive image of knowledge that we hold in our heads. Google presides (alongside Wikipedia) for Farrell, because of the ease of research it enables for poems: whether for a quote, an etymology, or a fact. Here its elements populate and drive the poetic imagination, creating realities in which anything might be related to something else, and the strange, the unsettling and the fantastic are the natural order of things.

'The poems in Googlecholia include ‘French Open’, a portrait of John McEnroe in the midst of a Baudelairean-inflected match; Philip Emu, a rewrite of John Skelton’s Tudor-era ‘Philip Sparrow’; the ABBA-driven prose poem ‘Grammatical Theme and “Dancing Queen”’; ‘“Fire” At The Pointer Sisters Factory’, a David Ireland-style nickname extravaganza (and a Best of Australian Poems 2021 choice); ‘“Cars” Is Feeling Grateful’, a status update via Gary Numan’s 1979 hit of the same name; and ‘Arthur Boyd Has Pink Teeth’, inspired by an early painting of his.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Penrith, Penrith area, Sydney Outer West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2022 .
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      Extent: 96p.
      Note/s:
      • Published October 2022
      ISBN: 9781922725318

Works about this Work

Will Druce Reviews Jake Goetz and Michael Farrell Will Druce , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 13 May no. 112 2024;

— Review of Unplanned Encounters : Poems 2015-2020 Jake Goetz , 2023 selected work poetry ; Googlecholia Michael Farrell , 2022 selected work poetry
Drift Mode Isabella Gullifer-Laurie , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 81 no. 4 2022; (p. 237)

— Review of Googlecholia Michael Farrell , 2022 selected work poetry
y separately published work icon Michael Farrell in Conversation Nico Callaghan (presenter), 2022 25657458 2022 single work podcast interview

'Michael Farrell discusses his latest collection of poetry, Googlecholia. This recording includes Farrell reading from the collection.'

Drift Mode Isabella Gullifer-Laurie , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 81 no. 4 2022; (p. 237)

— Review of Googlecholia Michael Farrell , 2022 selected work poetry
Will Druce Reviews Jake Goetz and Michael Farrell Will Druce , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 13 May no. 112 2024;

— Review of Unplanned Encounters : Poems 2015-2020 Jake Goetz , 2023 selected work poetry ; Googlecholia Michael Farrell , 2022 selected work poetry
y separately published work icon Michael Farrell in Conversation Nico Callaghan (presenter), 2022 25657458 2022 single work podcast interview

'Michael Farrell discusses his latest collection of poetry, Googlecholia. This recording includes Farrell reading from the collection.'

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