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Fivehundred Swimming Pools

Connor Weightman

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English
Hunter Publishers
01 March 2026

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*Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2026
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Through long poems, parataxis, pop culture, internet rabbit holes and lyric elements, Fivehundred Swimming Pools thematically meditates upon what it could mean to know or see crude oil from within an urban setting where the consequences of extraction are continually deferred, outsourced or otherwise made invisible.

'Fivehundred Swimming Poolsoccupies the continuum of calamity and quotidian that is oil, spilled or otherwise. Connor Weightman's petropoems extract, disperse, make visible

amid history and anecdote, trivia and statistic, fact and feeling

a fathom of oil, a rod of plastic. A mile of still air.'

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Imprint:   Hunter Publishers
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm, 
ISBN:   9780645965971
ISBN 10:   0645965979
Pages:   72
Publication Date:  
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Connor Weightman grew up in Perth/Boorloo and currently lives in Melbourne/Naarm. He holds a PhD from Charles Sturt University. His poems have appeared in various journals, includingWesterly, Corditeandfoam:e.His music has appeared on MySpace. He has worked as a barista, transcriptionist, critic and academic. He is working on his baking.Five hundred Swimming Poolsis his first collection.

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