Alan Fyfe book launch - G-d, Sleep, and Chaos

Name: Alan Fyfe book launch - G-d, Sleep, and Chaos
Start: 2024-07-26T19:00:00+08:00
Location: The Laneway Art Space

Schedule

Fri Jul 26 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

The Laneway Art Space | Perth, WA

Join us for a night of performance poetry like no other as we launch Alan Fyfe's debut poetry collection, G-d, Sleep, and Chaos. With performances by Scott-Patrick Mitchell and Lisa Collyer, your M.C. Maddie Godfrey, and launched by Lucy Dougan, the show will feature some of the most awarded and acclaimed poets in WA.
'In G-d, Sleep, and Chaos, Alan Fyfe has created a collection that is laugh-out loud funny and irreverent, while also being deeply moving, sophisticated, pithy and razor smart. It is at once oracular and grand, engaging with, among other things, death, love, trauma and drug addiction, without sacrificing its earthy bluntness. Although there is a direct nod to Emily Dickinson, with tightly constructed, often condensed poems, the work is also Whitmanian, capturing the ‘blab of the pave’ with an urban sensibility that is sometimes ethereal, sometimes guttural, metapoetic, hallucinatory, and always a bit funky. There is so much pleasure to be had here.’
~ Magdalena Ball, Compulsive Reader See less
Finger food provided, bar will be open.
Tickets ($10) are essential (so we can organise catering etc).
Doors open at 7pm
Show 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Venue remains open until 10pm
Made possible by Gazebo Books, Life Before Man and Rabble Books and Games.