Cirrus@Austlit

'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)