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Guess the Experience | Pam Brown

$24.95

ISBN: 9781763509252
September 2025
$24.95

'If you want – and who doesn’t? – a poet who effects a transfiguration of the commonplace, it is Pam Brown.’ – Justin Clemens

Guess the Experience. Where does it happen? Who can remember? Does it matter?

Sometimes sombre, sometimes banal, sometimes dissonant, often insomniac — this choppy mix of a book divulges Pam Brown's bemused attitude to poetry's insignificance and dubious usefulness, salted with an odd kind of sceptical optimism.

Some of these poems reveal narrative threads drawn from both real and invented encounters, locations, and situations. Some accumulate from conversations, books, advertisements, screens, propaganda, – in other words, art, life, and culture – to develop into the interstitial forms of a poem.

ISBN: 9781763509252
September 2025
$24.95

'If you want – and who doesn’t? – a poet who effects a transfiguration of the commonplace, it is Pam Brown.’ – Justin Clemens

Guess the Experience. Where does it happen? Who can remember? Does it matter?

Sometimes sombre, sometimes banal, sometimes dissonant, often insomniac — this choppy mix of a book divulges Pam Brown's bemused attitude to poetry's insignificance and dubious usefulness, salted with an odd kind of sceptical optimism.

Some of these poems reveal narrative threads drawn from both real and invented encounters, locations, and situations. Some accumulate from conversations, books, advertisements, screens, propaganda, – in other words, art, life, and culture – to develop into the interstitial forms of a poem.

Pam Brown has been active in the Australian poetry scene for five decades. She has been an editor for Overland magazine, co-editor of Jacket magazine and guest editor of other journals and chapbook series. Several of her many books have been on the shortlists and have sometimes won the prize. Most recently, Stasis Shuffle received the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry in 2022. Born in Seymour Victoria, Pam grew up on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. She has lived and worked in Melbourne and Adelaide but has spent most of her life in Sydney, now living on Gadigal land.

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