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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Ghost Poetry
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'I saved the pieces of you

when you fell apart

'Robert Adamson wrote that Robbie Coburn's poems "come from tough experiences, yet are created with a muscular craft that glows with alert intelligence". Largely set within stark farmland and surreal, nightmarish dreams, Coburn's new collection of poems, Ghost Poetry, is haunted by depression, trauma, addiction, memory, regret, and the spectre of mutilation and violence inflicted on the human body, accompanied by the desire to leave.

'But through this, there is always the process of the poet writing; an act that both dissects and preserves experience and suffering. This act ultimately creates, as Leonard Cohen wrote, an engine of survival.

'Always vulnerable, often confronting and harrowing, Ghost Poetry is a beautifully crafted and important work that will scar the reader' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Author's note: 

    For 

    Robert Adamson

    1943-2022

    Poet, mentor, friend

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Perth, Western Australia,: Upswell Publishing , 2024 .
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      Extent: 96p.
      Note/s:
      • Published January 2024
      ISBN: 9780645536898

Works about this Work

Book Review : Ghost Poetry, Robbie Coburn Barrina South , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , March 2024;

— Review of Ghost Poetry Robbie Coburn , 2024 selected work poetry

'A poetry collection that reflects deeply on trauma, loss and hope.'

Book Review : Ghost Poetry, Robbie Coburn Barrina South , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , March 2024;

— Review of Ghost Poetry Robbie Coburn , 2024 selected work poetry

'A poetry collection that reflects deeply on trauma, loss and hope.'

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