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Flat Exit
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. "FLAT EXIT is about greetings and departures, learning to let go and circle back to pick up what remains. These poems jump between northeastern Victoria and Melbourne, romantic and platonic relationships, moments of personal triumph and those of shellshocked grief.
"Collected here in this sequence, they explore the dislocation that occurs when moving from regional Australia to its urban mass, and when falling in and out of love for the first time. The poems revolve from homesickness, to self-care, to finding a soul to complement my own at an unexpected time and in an unexpected place—and life before and after the death of a close friend.
"Many of these poems are autobiographical; some are fiction. My intention is not to be confessional but — as Gwen Harwood says — to establish 'a way of seeing'. Mine, as it's been so far." —Broede Carmody
"Collected here in this sequence, they explore the dislocation that occurs when moving from regional Australia to its urban mass, and when falling in and out of love for the first time. The poems revolve from homesickness, to self-care, to finding a soul to complement my own at an unexpected time and in an unexpected place—and life before and after the death of a close friend.
"Many of these poems are autobiographical; some are fiction. My intention is not to be confessional but — as Gwen Harwood says — to establish 'a way of seeing'. Mine, as it's been so far." —Broede Carmody
- GenresPoetry
67 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2017
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May 19, 2026
This is a collection of moments. Like memories, they are often stark and bright, rendered with certainty and specificity. But also like memories they are unstable. Whether they are discrete or part of a grand story, whether the "you" who is addressed throughout is one person or many, lover or friend — the edges of these poems blur into dreams. Read more on my blog.
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