About

Laurie Brady was educated at Sydney and Macquarie Universities, and has lived in Sydney all his life. This is his third book of poetry. He is currently Professor of Education at the University of Technology, Sydney.

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Reviews

"Laurie Brady is a poet of the everyday, writing of life in the suburbs, walking the dog, visiting aged relatives. Often however, the everyday is made strange: lust and guilt are put out with the garbage, infidelities bloom behind brick veneers but whether comic or serious, his poems present human experience in a contemporary voice."

Elizabeth Webby
Professor of English, University of Sydney

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Extract

Moving House

once outside, the furniture seems to change,
crossing the line to contextual void.
bleached of sentiment it becomes the stuff
of inventories, respectfully prepared by Abbco Removals.
confederate of my own lobotomy, i watch my memory
removed by silent men in overalls,
and when they're gone, i walk the empty rooms,
all unhinged silence like a ghost town bar.
my bedroom chrysalis is empty of the books
that surrounded me with answers in my
greener question seeking days,
and still the pittosporum taps the pane
with nutty fingers, aching with my old projections.
i take one final look and image
my room a month from now,
a nursery bathed in sunlight yellow
and cottage collection print,
or a study in masculine flock
with thick fur rugs and boer swords.
my mother continues to clean, swabbing away
the residue of lingering memories
lest they be left like spirits
without a benediction.

Irish Setter On A Beach

he bounds along the beach
with copper fur on fire
in setting sun,
his amber eyes aglow.
we laugh
to watch his meaty tongue
loll back and forth
like wipers on a car,
and as he nears us
thrilling to his verve
and calling out his name,
intent to capture and constrain,
embrace his freedom,
thieve his transient glee,
he swerves a pace away
to shower us in a veil of sand,
elusive as a moment's joy
and fugitive as time.

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