Adam Aitken

These poems question notions of Australianness, delivering a montage of voices, both imagined and real.

Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry The title of this collection, Revenants, suggests spirits and ghosts who return to the human world through dream and art, not to haunt it, but to remind the living that the present and the past are intertwined. At the heart of the collection is a series of poems about...