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\u201cRob Walker is a perceptive spirit, and his language is fast catching up with his noticings.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>Les Murray.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cInformed by a performative style, Walker\u2019s poetry is highly accessible, but\u00a0never dumbed down. He\u2019ll write about the Fibonacci sequence or Extatosoma\u00a0tiaratum (the phasmid) as well as bong smokers in the suburbs. Bestiary, field\u00a0guide and joke book, tropeland is sometimes sardonic, but tempered by a\u00a0humanist and sympathetic sense of the comedic. Walker likes playing games\u00a0with words, turning tropes inside out. Here he takes us on a journey from\u00a0Japan to the backblocks of South Australia. I think you\u2019ll enjoy the ride.\u201d<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Mike Ladd<\/strong><\/p>\n

“tropeland\u00a0questions the poetic language that propels it forward \u2013 dismantling the prosthetic legs of its rhetorical feet. This collection of poems is characterised by variety in subject and form, articulating the uncanny amongst the ordinary and the sinister currents that underwrite the noise and bustle of our moment. The best poems show Rob Walker\u2019s ear to be finely tuned to vernacular.\u00a0Danny in Detention\u00a0is particularly deft: a little masterpiece of the colloquial and concrete.”<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0Aidan Coleman<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Through Walker\u2019s eyes the exotic becomes familiar and the familiar exotic. Within these poems the world is distilled down to its essential elements and cultures are dissected to reveal their unique componentry. This is a poet whose love of language sings from every page. Walker\u2019s poetry is instantly recognizable for its balance of insight, cheeky wordplay and imagery that never pulls its punch. Walker is a poet of extraordinary range, able to move from satire to pathos with seemingly effortless grace. From Hiroshima to reality tv, this collection manages to swing between soulful and hilarious without a putting a foot out of place. Brave, beautiful and irreverent.” \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Rachael Mead<\/strong><\/p>\n

“walker seems to swim in language, and he is dolphin-quick with his word play and banter: \u2018vegans flesh out proposals\/ meat is doing it tough\u2019. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>Lucy Alexander <\/strong>(Verity La)<\/p>\n

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“tropeland is exceptionally dynamic. Rob Walker utilises a range of forms to explore a number of issues and settings with deftness, humour and sympathy all at once. ” \u00a0<\/em>Siobahn Hodge<\/strong>\u00a0(Cordite Poetry Review)<\/p>\n

“… tackles difficult subjects like learning and dying. The title poem declares wordplay and humour as important elements. Here, matches \u2018spontane combustuously\u2019 and vampire bats are \u2018garbags\u2019. Expressions like \u2018Surreal estate\u2019 and the idea of blank rainbows which we fill in ourselves…”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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“If Clich\u00e9 is\u00a0a democratically elected form of truth, then Rob Walker is sitting as an Independent and disrupting proceedings from the cross-benches. He’s been warned by the Speaker.”<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Mike Ladd<\/strong> (poet, founding presenter\/producer of ABC RN\u2019s Poetica<\/em>)<\/p>\n

\u201c …\u00a0a wry, sardonic, meta-poetic, and often very funny\u00a0exploration of politics, aging, current affairs, fear, travel, human\u00a0weaknesses, technology, and much more.\u00a0\u00a0 This is powerful poetry that cuts through modern\u00a0pretensions and the clich\u00e9s we surround ourselves with razor sharpness.\u00a0\u201d<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0Magdalena Ball<\/strong> (poet, author, critic, editor of compulsivereader.com)<\/p>\n

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\u201c He relishes word-play and the play of ideas it spawns, one wry eye trained inward while the other peers archly out onto an almost speculative world where what looks like chance could well be synchronicity \u201d \u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Michele Seminara<\/strong>\u00a0 (poet, critic and managing editor of Verity La creative arts journal)<\/p>\n

\u201c These eminently readable poems will delight you, amuse you and inspire you to re-examine those things around us which we take for granted. You will never look at a mouse-plague the same way again! \u201d<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0Tracey Korsten<\/strong>\u00a0 (poet, actor, comedian, director, cinema\/ theatre critic)<\/p>\n

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POLICIES & PROCEDURES<\/h2>\n

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Reflective poems from the spokesman on Education and Health.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe phobia is a rich source for poetry, not only because it draws on our universal and deep seated fears and therefore provides a hotbed of imagery and intensity, but also because it can be quite funny. As is always the case with walker\u2019s work, the relationship between horror and humour is handled exceptionally well… <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Even at his lightest though, walker always provokes the reader. Most of the poems push deeply, looking at the way we turn private tragedy into public hunger, as in \u201c<\/em><\/span>Pre-dated\u201d, or how we might help a friend in pain, as in \u201c<\/em><\/span>Bipolar grief\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cMais ces fragments de discours jet\u00e9s font davantage l\u2019effet d\u2019un zapping audiovisuel, produisant un bruit bien symptomatique de l\u2019\u00e9poque contemporaine\u2014\u00ab\u00a0silence is to be avoided \/ a walkman is good \/ tv much better\u00a0\u00bb (\u00ab\u00a0metrophobia 3\u00a0\u00bb). D\u00e8s lors, les \u00e9lans de sympathie pour quelques semblables souffrants peuvent appara\u00eetre r\u00e9trospectivement comme une indiff\u00e9rence masqu\u00e9e par pudeur, un reste d\u2019humanit\u00e9 auquel Walker s\u2019accroche avec un effarement devant la barbarie soft du monde moderne, qu\u2019exprime bien la t\u00eate de Nabuchodonosor par William Blake sur la couverture de phobiaphobia.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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“Whether he’s focussing on the minute worlds of insects or big political themes, <\/em>rob walker’s<\/strong><\/em> poetry is witty, incisive and nicely attuned to the ‘mouthfeel’ of language.<\/em> \"micromacroCover\"<\/a>His black sense of humour is a bonus.”<\/em> – Mike Ladd<\/strong><\/p>\n

walker<\/strong> grabs you by the scruff of the neck and pulls you up through a chemical mosaic of earth and ocean until you confront your earliest evolutionary ancestors. Then there are insects, spiders, birds, cats – and the human race. walker finds a wide range of subjects variously eliciting his wit, concern, outrage or empathy. He achieves memorable poems through a combination of startling visual imagery and a dialogue with language itself.” –<\/em> Graham Rowlands<\/strong><\/p>\n

” rob walker<\/strong> combines sharp perception, compassion and humour to create crisp intersections of time and place. Airy shortcuts, sensuous imagery, and a warm sympathy combine in poems that range from insect life to human relationships, from landscape to love.”<\/em> – Jan Owen<\/strong><\/p>\n

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from New Poets Ten, 2005. “… written with apparent simplicity and without engaging in sophisticated word play, there is a constant thread of preoccupation running from the local to the global. Some poems are marbled through with a contained distress or acrid criticism which hides in the form of humorous satire… In \u201ccolin powell addresses the UN\u201d<\/em>, walker<\/strong> moves to the scene of international politics and American intervention in Iraq. :<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a> it\u2019s powerpoint of course. \/ all power. no point. \/ microsoftware \/ before the macrohardware \/ all style no substance \/ erect an argument on flawed foundations \/ holes the size \/ of bombcraters \/ a colon \/ : pregnant pause before a war \/<\/p>\n

lives reduced<\/em> not to dot points<\/em> but bullet points<\/em>” Susan Ballyn<\/strong>, Cercles<\/a>, Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201crob walker’s<\/strong> poems concern themselves with injustice, beauty, memory, impressions, captivity and misplaced assistance\u201d<\/em> Debra Zott<\/strong>, API Review of Books, Journal of Australian Studies<\/p>\n

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Friendly Street Thirty<\/h2>\n

(as editor, with Louise Nicholas.) 2006 “Housed in a satisfyingly clean and handsome volume are the works of first-time tyros and those who have been featured regularly since the first Friendly Street annual reader or who have found over the years a national, even an international voice. Dip into this fecund variety, from haiku to concrete verse, wit to wisdom, or read from cover to cover and marvel at the sway that poetry supposedly unpopular and unpublishable, still holds over our hearts and our imaginations.” <\/em><\/p>\n

Katherine England<\/strong>, Saturday Review, The Adelaide Advertiser. \"fspoets30\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“So with over one hundred members… you can imagine the range of quality, theme, tone, length, style etc. And this anthology provides us with a taste of the diversity that Rob Walker and Louise Nicholas had to endure through their sifting and sorting through a seemingly endless pile of poems. But the two noted poets have managed to put together an anthology that, yes, changes mood from page to page but is somehow whole unto itself. It is an anthology that is lively, contemplative and vividly accessible. These poems prove that Adelaide, as far as the poetry scene goes, is on the map and there is not a single poem in this collection that does not deserve to be published.”<\/em> Heather Taylor-Johnson<\/strong>, SAETA Newsletter, Summer, 2007.<\/p>\n

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