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THE STREET POET
by Jaidyn Luke Attard
Coming of age / poetry / verse novel
urban fiction / stories about Melbourne
experimental autofiction / street art
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RRP: $34.99
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780645702729
Pages: 358
Size: 198 x 129mm
Poetry bleeds from brick walls. Protesters choke the roads.
Prophets howl on street corners. Needles glitter in the gutters.
This is 21st-century Melbourne.
JOHNNY LOCK is fragile, sheltered, wary of his own shadow. He yearns to write poetry but has nothing to write about-because he never leaves the house. The world is too loud for him. Too real. Then he meets JAY: a travelling street writer on a mission to tell stories about Melbourne. Jay offers Johnny one brutal, liberating piece of advice: do the things that terrify you most. Overthrow The Fear. Talk to strangers. Watch. Listen. Let the city speak.
As Johnny brands himself a 'street poet', his world cracks open and his metamorphosis begins. He drifts through train stations and alleyways, colliding with the forgotten strangers of the city. The lost, the intoxicated, the down-and-out dreamers. His words give them grace, perhaps even salvation, in having their stories told. Their voices bleed into his own. Observation becomes confession.
From drunken train-rides to inner-city chaos, THE STREET POET is a fevered coming-of-age portrait of a young man, a poet on the edge, unravelling and remaking himself in a turbulent city. This honest collection of typewritten poetry and jagged vignettes captures Melbourne in all its beautiful contradictions: hot and cold, romantic and rotten, sensible and bizarre. Part love letter, part manifesto, part scream into the night.
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