Jake Goetz

Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025, Poetry Holocene Pointbreaks presents a triptych of long poems that veer physically, temporally, and textually across the lands of the Dharawal and Eora Nations. From morning reflections on Australia's most polluted urban waterway, the 'Cooks River', to a discursive rumination on the history of whaling from the cliffs of Kamay, and an archival interrogation...