New + Used Ghosts

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A visionary collection of ghost stories and prose poems from multi-award-winning poet Samuel Wagan Watson In this spectrally inspired collection, acclaimed Mununjali/Yugambeh writer Samuel Wagan Watson challenges the boundaries between the living, the dead and the dormant in his unique lyrical and humorous style. Watson writes of bodies, bathrooms, rivers and dreams, all inhabited by ghosts of memory and history. These stories and poems are awake to the imprints left by violent pasts, as well as those left by love, by reading and by living vividly. New + Used Ghosts is a haunting interrogation of Country, culture and colonisation from one of Australia's greatest poetic voices.

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Hailing from the honourable ancestors of the Mununjali/Yugambeh, Germanic and Gaelic peoples, Samuel Wagan Watson grew up in a family of accomplished authors, political players, entrepreneurs, academics, artists and raconteurs. His collection of poetry Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight won the 1999 David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writers. Since then he has written Hotel Bone (2001); Itinerant Blues (2002); Smoke Encrypted Whispers (2004), which won the 2005 New South Wales Premier's Book of the Year and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry; The Curse Words (2011); and Love Poems and Death Threats (2014), which won the 2016 Scanlon Award for Indigenous Poetry and was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. In 2018 Samuel was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award.