Change Machine

Description

The much-anticipated third collection from the multi-award-wining and internationally recognised poet Jaya Savige. Tough and alert, Savige's shapeshifting poems reflect the world in violent transformation. Bodies scarred by history collide in the ruckus of generations, geopolitics and technology. Elegies appear alongside poems that set a pulse to new life, biomedical surveillance, leaf blowers, fatbergs, mechanical pets and military coups. A work of fiercely intelligent artistry, Change Machine is shaped, equally, by feeling - its wild originality comes from how it forces the two together.

Jaya Savige was born in Sydney, raised on Bribie Island, and lives in London. He is the author of Latecomers (UQP, 2005), which won the New South Wales Premier's Prize and was highly commended for the ASAL Dame Mary Gilmore Prize, and Surface to Air (UQP, 2011), which was shortlisted for The Age Poetry Book of the Year and the West Australian Premier's Book Award for Poetry. He read for a PhD on James Joyce at the University of Cambridge (Christ's) as a Gates Scholar, and has held Australia Council residencies at the B.R. Whiting Studio, Rome, and the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris. He lectures at the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern, and is poetry editor for The Australian.