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Title: Fitzroy: The Biography
Author: PI O
Format: PAPERBACK
Imprint: COLLECTIVE EFFORT
Price: $55.00
Publishing status: Active
Pi O grew up in the Narrows of Fitzroy and, in-and-on that tainted corner along that terrible mile known thru-out Australia as Gertrude St. and Brunswick St. opposite the Champion and Rob Roy Hotels.
This is a poetry of place (and of, a place), from the perspective of one who grew up there – not by a tour guide, a oncer, do-gooder, academic, apologist, blow-hard, or for that matter a blow in, but by one whose co-ordinates have always been (0, 0). There are over 400 portraits of some of the most important people in Australia – from prime ministers, saints, poets, priests, gangsters, adventurers, sculptors, murderers, and industrialists, as well as of those who may not otherwise have ever, seen the light of day again. A poetry of people, not property prices!
With all the biographies merging with that of the poets own autobiography or biography and visa versa. This is a new kind of history, in a new & old kind of poetry, in a new era. A mammoth achievement in the annuals of Australian literature
ISBN: 9780958772679