Keri Glastonbury

An incisive observer of Australian cultural life returns with a collection that satirically reimagines our era of chaos and chicanery. "The republic of letters / a veritable la la land," writes Keri Glastonbury in 51 Alterities, a collection in which cacophony rhymes with simplicity, and device notifications rebound across the desert horizon. In her poems, "nepo boys are punching above...

Once a working-class heartland, Newcastle is now acclaimed as one of the top 5 hipster cities in the world. In the sequence of sonnets which compose her homage to Newcastle, Glastonbury celebrates the city's oddities and contradictions, remixing the material effects of gentrification with the regional vernacular and punk drama of locally based social media blogs, Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, and...