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Lachlan Brown is a senior lecturer in English at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. His poems have appeared in journals including Westside, Heat, Rabbit, Mascara and Relief. (Source : Cordite : Explode)
‘Self-Division : Little Song Selections2017sequence poetry — Appears in:
Overland,Autumn
no.
2262017;(p. 32-34)Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists2021;(p. 32-34)Judge's Report: Lachlan Brown’s ‘Self-division: little song selections’, this year’s runner-up, is a series of playful but moody sonnets set in suburban Western Sydney, structured around the prime-numbered tracks of what could be a hoax record by an unknown band. Brown’s breathtaking enjambments (‘those ads you accident- / ally click on before the world / explodes’) give the malle(y)able sonnet form yet another lease of life.
