Ghost Poetry

Robbie Coburn

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UPSWELL
03 January 2024

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

"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."

By: Robbie Coburn
Imprint: UPSWELL
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 149mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 124g
ISBN: 9780645536898
ISBN 10: 064553689X
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 03 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robbie Coburn's books include And I Could Not Have Hurt You, The Other Flesh and Rain Season. His poems have been published in Poetry, Meanjin, Island, Westerly, and elsewhere, and anthologised in books including Writing to the Wire and To End All Wars. He is currently based in Melbourne.