Meditations With Passing Water

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*Shortlisted for Queensland Premiers Literary Awards Book of State Significance*

Jake Goetz splices Southbank strolls with explorer diaries in this jump cut account of Maiwars millennia of history. The poem meanders, like the river itself, from headwaters near Kilcoy, bending, switching back on itself before eventually draining into Moreton Bay as the poet grapples with colonialisms brutal annihilation to find his place in the River City in the 21st century. Its an ambitious first collection that makes a significant contribution to Meanjins mythology. Liam Ferney

Goetzs dedicated surrender to the haphazard affords a probably unintended yet distinctly smooth interspersal of the historical and the contemporary. Pam Brown, Plumwood Mountain

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'Goetz's dedicated surrender to the haphazard affords a probably unintended yet distinctly smooth interspersal of the historical and the contemporary.' -- Pam Brown, Plumwood Mountain

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Jake Goetz grew up in the Sutherland Shire, but has also spent time in Europe, Asia and the Americas, as well as living in Brisbane. He studied Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong and completed his Honours at Griffith University. He is the editor of the small journal Marrickville Pause, and currently lives in Sydneys Inner West.