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Prove that you are a human. Do something lovely or vicious or both. 'A rare and memorable poetry that shines with colour and sensation. But also a poetry of sharp insight, wit and resistance.' - Tom Shapcott 'Few fully appreciate his range and uniqueness as a poet living both in the Australian mindscape, and distinctly outside it ... Ladd is an iconoclast and an icon-maker all at once.' - John Kinsella 'While the poetry always retains a light touch, and is self-aware in the most postmodern of ways, these pieces go deeper than they seem to at first glance and leave a powerful sensation in their wake.' - Magdalena Ball 'Ladd's pace is subtle, his timing perfect. There is a thought-provoking playfulness that is not practiced, but rather intuitive.' - Heather Taylor-Johnson 'Mike Ladd has a wonderful economy to his lines, making the short lyric poem do a great deal in the way of emotional registration and acute observation.' - John Jenkins

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Mike Ladd was born in 1959 in Berkeley California to Australian parents and grew up at Blackwood in the Adelaide Hills. Mike is a poet, essayist and reviewer. He has published ten collections of poetry and prose, including the natural history haibun Karrawirra Parri: Walking the Torrens from source to sea (Wakefield Press, 2012) and Dream Tetras (Wakefield Press, 2022) an experimental collaboration with visual artist Cathy Brooks. Mike worked for ABC Radio for nearly forty years, firstly as a sound engineer and then as a producer of dramas and documentaries. He was the editor of Radio National's Poetica program, which brought Australian and international poetry to a wide audience.

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