Corey Wakeling

Uncle of Cats by Corey Wakeling is a collection of poems that maintains a formally consecutive structure while employing radical parataxis. These lines never expand portentously; instead, they offer a critique that aims to nullify figures like Larkin and bog men, exploring the archaeologies of cultural inheritance. The poems’ Japanese intertexts do not indulge in a smug distortion from an...

Goad Omen is Corey Wakeling's first full-length collection of poems, offering a vibrant and witty interplay of depths and resurfacings. It portrays a world littered with grim foreshadowings and kitschy memorabilia alike. Traversing fable and found object, hearsay and gainsay, intrigue and abstraction, its characters are immersed in natural and urban 'landscapes of peril'—whether in Melbourne, Glasgow, Rottnest Island, or...

Acclaimed poet Corey Wakeling's second collection continues his inquiry into language and the spatial architectures of history and culture. Set among 20th century ruins, the poems are cast as if hallucinations: colonial-style houses are 'guarded by palm trees', Royal Park 'detains two immoveable statues' while the 'Wheel of Fortune dizzies'. The poems range throughout Melbourne and Western Australia, where the...