Limited Cities

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Limited Cities is a collection which wrestles with the peculiarities of place, particularly the city and its outlying suburbs, with its vast housing estates and shopping malls and highways, 'where silent graffiti haunts the/ midday breeze where spring/ rain cuts through the sun and/ a rottweiler sleeps outside the/ doors of the supermarket'. These Australian scenes are set against their various European counterparts, with rhapsodies on the Parisian banlieues during Advent and Lent, to a series of Venetian 'postcards', and list-poems set in Barcelona. The poems describe the suburban landscape in a remarkably clear way, finding grace in those parts of them that are often overlooked or derided. Lachlan Brown was shortlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize and is a recipient of a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. He teaches literature at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga.

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Highly commended for the 2014 Mary Gilmore Award for a first collection of poetry.

'Offering a subtle understanding of figurative urban limits and generous specificity in its literal descriptions, Limited Cities is an accomplished debut.' Cordite

'Limited Cities announces a new, accomplished and confident voice.' Australian Poetry Review

'Brown's poems are exquisite in their meditative mood...he manages to combine a great depth of feeling and content with a crisp ear for accessible language.' Book to the Future