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You are warmly invited to the Melbourne launch of my new collection of poems, *Transition Vamps* (Cordite Books 2026). Join me at Soundworks Studios in Brunswick for an evening of poetry, celebration and maybe, just maybe, some sax. "The unbounded expansion of possibilities, of language, poetics and meaning, gives the poems in *Transition Vamps* their momentum."
--Liam Ferney
It’s hardly controversial to claim that daily life contains transitions. From sleep to wakefulness, REM states to proto-circadian lucidity, pre- to post-caffeine, horizontal to vertical, a.m. to p.m., light to darkness. But many of the day’s transitions also repeat, like a jazz combo vamping while the lead sax or guitar shapes beauty out of curved air. Infinite pomodoro cycles of existence, timeboxes crammed with discrete thoughts, zen’s meditative end-games.
*Transition Vamps* spans three decades of transitions in my writing life: from the mid-to-late 2000s in Melbourne, Seoul, Den Haag and Amsterdam, to the 2010s in Karlskrona, Stockholm and Gustavsberg, and the early 2020s in Paris and Fryslân.
Superstar poet and broadcaster *Alicia Sometimes* will launch the book, and the event will also feature several mystery guest speakers.
Books will be available for sale on the night of the launch through *Brunswick Bound*. Support your local bookseller!
Buy *Transition Vamps* via the Cordite Books website: https://corditebooks.org.au/products/transition-vamps
Read Liam Ferney's Introduction to the book: https://cordite.org.au/introductions/ferney-prater/
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Soundworks, 271 Albert St, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia, Brunswick
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