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Newcastle Sonnets

By Keri Glastonbury
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Newcastle Sonnets is a vibrant poetic homage to the city of Newcastle, once a working-class hub and now one of the world's top hipster cities. Through a sequence of sonnets, Keri Glastonbury captures the city's contradictions and gentrification, blending regional vernacular with the dynamic energy of social media culture. This collection is a creative remix that juxtaposes DIY spirit with the digital age's social interactions, portraying Newcastle as a place of colourful contrasts and cultural fusion.
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This book will resonate with readers interested in contemporary poetry, urban culture, and Australian regional identity. Fans of modern poetic forms and those intrigued by the interplay of tradition and digital life in post-industrial cities will find it compelling.

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Sonnets , Glastonbury'spoems make music from what's around, embracing both DIY chutzpah and the swipes,likes, and filtered screens of internet culture. This is Newcastle in cosplay,part eggs benedict, part pebblecrete, where a coal boat named 'Fiction' isalways approaching the shore.

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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 Google Maps.

An antipodean, regional queering of Ted Berrigan's New York-based Sonnets, Glastonbury's poems make music from what's around, embracing both DIY chutzpah and the swipes, likes, and filtered screens of internet culture. This is Newcastle in cosplay, part eggs benedict, part pebblecrete, where a coal boat named 'Fiction' is always approaching the shore.

Channelling the subconscious of the post-industrial city, Newcastle Sonnets reads like poetic Pop-Rocks, its moments and insights condensed into flares and crackles. - Vanessa Berry

Hip, suave, pert, pinpointing, and penetrating, these poems engage with locale in most enterprising ways. - Judith Beveridge, Australian Book Review - Books of the Year 2018

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781925336894

Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2018

Country: Australia

Imprint: Giramondo Publishing Co

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 105g

Pages: 96

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