Ghost Poetry

Robbie Coburn

Ghost Poetry
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Upswell Publishing
Country
Australia
Published
3 January 2024
Pages
96
ISBN
9780645536898

Ghost Poetry

Robbie Coburn

I saved the pieces of you when you fell apart

Robert Adamson wrote that Robbie Coburn's poems "come from tough experiences, yet are created with a muscular craft that glows with alert intelligence". Largely set within stark farmland and surreal, nightmarish dreams, Coburn's new collection of poems, Ghost Poetry, is haunted by depression, trauma, addiction, memory, regret, and the spectre of mutilation and violence inflicted on the human body, accompanied by the desire to leave.

But through this, there is always the process of the poet writing; an act that both dissects and preserves experience and suffering. This act ultimately creates, as Leonard Cohen wrote, an engine of survival.

Always vulnerable, often confronting and harrowing, Ghost Poetry is a beautifully crafted and important work that will scar the reader.

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