Avenues & Runways

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This debut poetry collection will take its place at the forefront of the work of a new generation of Australian poets.An imagist of striking originality, Aidan Coleman captures moods and moments common to us all, revealing the inexhaustible depth of our everyday lives. "Avenues and Runways introduces a poet of luminous clarity and exemplary precision. Aidan Coleman writes of the Australian everyday in an extraordinary manner. This is a book to be welcomed and celebrated." (Kevin Hart)"Aidan Coleman is already one of the finest young poets in the country, and easily the most hair-raising imagist, the most piercing epigrammatist." (Peter Goldsworthy)

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Aidan Coleman, born in Aberystwyth, Wales in 1976, migrated with his family to Australia in the mid-eighties. He studied Arts at the University of Adelaide and his poetry has been published in numerous journals, anthologies and newspapers in Australia and overseas. Aidan Coleman teaches English and History at Trinity College in Gawler, South Australia, where he lives with his wife, Leana. Avenues and Runways is his first full-length poetry collection.