{"title":"Aidan Coleman","description":"\u003cp\u003eAidan Coleman's work offers a compelling blend of candid memoir and reflective insight, drawing readers into the complexities of personal experience. His writing explores themes of vulnerability, resilience, and identity with a voice that is both haunting and intimate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFans of \u003cem\u003eDamaged Glamour\u003c\/em\u003e and similar titles will appreciate the nuanced storytelling and emotional depth that characterise Coleman's approach. His books are a thoughtful journey through the moments that shape a life, marked by honesty and a distinctive literary style.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"damaged-glamour-by-aidan-coleman-9780522878622","title":"Damaged Glamour","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Forbes lived brilliantly and dangerously: ill-fated love affairs, addictions, uncompromising artistic vision, dead at forty-seven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAidan Coleman examines the poet's oeuvre, alongside his taste-shaping criticism, his collaborations with fellow artists, his generosity and pugnacity, and his magnetism as a teacher and reveller in Europe and Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDamaged Glamour\u003c\/em\u003e is the first comprehensive portrait of the dazzling but troubled poet, set against the backdrop of the Sydney and Melbourne literary scenes at a time when poetry was worth fighting over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Forbes was a complicated, glorious, compulsively ironic and—yes—tragic figure of recent times who left behind great poetry and prose as part of a sprawling archive that includes the many voices of those who knew him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAidan Coleman is an expert guide to this rich material, interpreting the work with discernment and the life with sympathy. He lets things speak for themselves, achieving in this way a remarkably balanced portrait of a troubled artist with a difficult life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLarger questions come into view, of vocation and a poet's role in society. If you are a poet, do you have to lead a poet's life, choosing art over life and making it hard for those you love or who love you? \u003cem\u003eDamaged Glamour\u003c\/em\u003e is as disturbing as it is celebratory and will have its readers reaching for Forbes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNICHOLAS JOSE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68068860035308,"sku":"9780522878622","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780522878622-damaged-glamour-1.jpg?v=1793819491"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/aidan-coleman.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}