Cirrus@Austlit

'When Ned Kelly dictated his "Jerilderie Letter" in 1879, he created a legacy ripe for plunder. Cut, pasted and peppered with redactions in Toby Fitch's Jerilderies, the tangled syntax and rich vocabulary of Kelly's letter become "the spewy ground" of a bushy unconscious where phantom characters materialise, morph and dissolve - into riddles of economy and sexuality, class and cant. Brindling against law and order - "the man that blowed my brains out" - Jerilderies hits on the myth of discovering a found "native land".' (Publication summary)

'In a world constructed from both physical and mental objects, poetry is a perfect vehicle to explore our experience. The existence of things posits tantalising ideas of the existence of unthings, the seemingly impossible. Negative mathematical objects such as un-tigers, built on Charles Dodson's alter-ego Lewis Carroll work, or surreal objects such as Meret Oppenheim's Un Objet encourage us to be both serious and playful in our puzzles over existence. Thing & Unthing records part of the thinking about, and playfulness possible in a complicated world.' (Publication summary)

'THE COMPLETE POCKETBOOK OF SWOON is a convenient portable companion for the use and amusement of today's Youth. Considering the relationship between individual desire and public convenience, it offers a small compass on the cultural navigation of feelings. Learn about the fabrication of attraction, the lesser or secret theatres of life inside life, and how to read Love variously and proportionately. Kept handy, this volume provides a ready source of occasional pleasure and instruction.' (Publication summary)