Rust Belt
Author(s): Jamie Trower
"At an unknown train station, a fair goddess waits for her next ride to Paradise. Across the platform, two brothers farewell each other for what feels like the last time. The dusk sky outside is blanched in mocked orange from the blister of a meteor as it crumbles into orbit. Out there, the world is changing rapidly, yet the goddess is more interested in examining the ordinary passengers going about their lives. Where are they going? What are they travelling to? Who will be there to meet them at the end line?
In his third full collection, Jamie Trower uses his powerful, original voice to examine the past, present, and future of this ever-changing world. Each poem traverses his own lived experience with compassion whilst urgently holding a mirror up to a society on high alert. Funny, gut-wrenching, thought-provoking, and alarming, Trower’s poems guide us along the rusted track we travel to get ourselves back to Paradise."
Product Information
"Jamie Trower is a poet, journalist and motivational speaker from Auckland, New Zealand. He works for M2 magazine as a writer. He has interviewed or worked alongside Oscar, Logie, Grammy, Man Booker, and Golden Globe nominated/winning artists. Trower’s poetry has been published nationally and internationally, in places such as The Sunday Gleaner (JAM), Atlanta Review (USA), Poetry NZ (NZ) and Best New Zealand Poems (NZ). In 2015, he launched his first full collection of poetry, Anatomy, with Makaro Press. His second book, A Sign of Light, was launched in 2018 under The Cuba Press. In 2021, he and fellow Auckland poet, Sam Clements co-edited This Twilight Menagerie: A Whakanui of 40 Years of Poetry Live! His third book, Rust Belt, is to be launched early 2023 under his own BIRDBOY PRESS."
General Fields
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- : Birdboy Press
- : Birdboy Press
- : 01 January 2023
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jamie Trower
- : paperback
- : new
- : 100