The Shark of Messina

Liam Ferney

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Hunter Press
01 September 2025

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

Eagerly awaited new poetry from one of Australia's finest poets.

'Get in loser. Brace yourself. Liam Ferney's new book has landed and it's punchy, raw and raucous as well.

'The Shark of Messina is a book for the new roaring twenties; it's recent history as a kind of rock and roll comic book fantasia, complete with characters we know, or think we know

Trump and Rambo, Keanu and Satan. Haters rule. This book is full of lines you'll probably want to quote and pass off as your own, for instance, ""We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts / And their neighbors."" As Ferney implies, we're all ""losers"" in that world'

Rae Armantrout

By: Liam Ferney
Imprint: Hunter Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781763509283
ISBN 10: 1763509281
Pages: 140
Publication Date: 01 September 2025
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Liam Ferney is the author of Popular Mechanics (2004), Boom (2013), Content (2016), and Hot Take (2018). His poetry has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, the Kenneth Slessor Prize, and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. He lives in Brisbane.