Music Our Bodies Can't Hold

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*Shortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award*

'What use is music your body can't hold,
that can't take you from this world'

Each of these poems is a portrait of someone with or reputed to have had Marfan Syndrome. Many of the poems emerge out of personal interviews, while others are portraits of public figures: Abraham Lincoln, Akhenaten, Mary Queen of Scots , Edith Sitwell, Niccolo Paganini, John Tavener, Sergei Rachmaninov, and Robert Johnson, among others.

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ANDY JACKSON is the author ofAmong the Regulars(2010) which was shortlisted for he Kenneth Slessor Prize and highly commended in the Anne Elder Award and Human Looking, Winner of thePrime Minister's Literary Award 2022, theALS Gold Medal 2022 and Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.