Relaxed and laconic, Live at Mr Jake's riffs on a mix of highbrow and popular culture references. Accessible yet literary, this collection celebrates a diversity of voices from Australia and beyond. Spanning four continents, the poems are equally at home in the front bar as they are on the literary trail in Paris or San Francisco. Cool and understated, Brock surfs the cultural interstices of the Latin American influences on his life and work to create a poetic vision transpacific in scope.
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Steve (Steven) Brock lives in Adelaide with his wife and eight-year-old daughter. He has lived and travelled widely in South America, and has published his poetry and translations from the Spanish in a range of journals. In 2003 Steve completed a PhD in Australian literature at Flinders University, and he currently works as a speech writer and policy officer. He recently translated an anthology of Mapuche poets from Chile with Juan Garrido Salgado.
ISBN 9781743057100
CATEGORY Poetry
PAGE COUNT 104
DIMENSIONS 210 x 140 mm
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'Live at Mr Jake's is immediately engaging and unpretentiously breezy. But don't let that fool you. What seems simple never is. Steve Brock shows us that the everyday is where the important things happen, at home, in the office, on the street. His poems are shifty in the very best sense, they wander all round the world and into places where irony meets sincerity, upheaval meets grace, reading jostles against misreading. And it's there that the magic happens.' - Jill Jones
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'Sparse, elegant, moving, funny, Brock's poetry demonstrates how much can be achieved when poetry is clear, direct and looks out at the world with empathy and sincerity. Live at Mr Jake's is a superb gathering of observations and encounters, an engaging collection of finely-crafted snapshots.' - Peter Boyle