This extraordinary collection\, the fifth by the prize-winning poet David McCooey\, covers the full tragicomic spect rum of falling: from pratfalls to tragic demises\, from accident-prone par ents to ruinous celebrities. This is a collection that welcomes its reader s\, even as it plunges them into new ways of understanding the beautiful\, fallen worlds that we inhabit.
\nDavid McCooey \;is the author of four previous collections of poetry\, including \;Blister Pack< /em> \;(Salt\, 2005)\, which won the Mary Gilmore Award and was shortl isted for four other major literary awards\, \;Outside \; (Salt 2010)\, which was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards\, a nd \;Star Struck \;(UWAP\, 2016). His poetry appeared in ten of the last eleven editions of \;The Best Australian Poems \;series\, and it has been widely anthologised nationally and intern ationally. McCooey is the deputy general editor of the prize-winning \ ;Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature \;(2009). David live s and works on Wadawurrung tabayl in Geelong. \;
\nDavid will ap
pear in-conversation with Gregory Day\, \;writer and
musician living on Wadawurrung tabayl in the Eastern Otways region of Vict
oria\, Australia. Gregory has published five novels to date and has won ma
ny awards\, including the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. In 201
9 Gregory&rsquo\;s most recent novel \;A Sand Archive \;w
as shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2020 Gregory received the
Patrick White Award for his ongoing body of work\, and in 2021 he was awar
ded the Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize for his essay