a forensic poet with obsessive resolve
- Written by: Jessica Wilkinson, Associate Professor, Writing and Publishing, RMIT University
Adam AitkenGiramondo PublishingThe first poem of Adam Aitken’s new collection Revenants is a curiosity that demands close attention:
Xmas, Singapore 1957
Much better than thatMelbourne dayin ’56 – so my father wrote in blue fountain pen on airline parchment
to his mother Jean.
Apéro-time thenEnglish goose + trimmings,a bottle...