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'Dom Symes's songs of love / & hate speech is an exploratory ramble through urban life that leaves the poet ""dangling on the edge of the tax-free threshold"" while constant protest shrinks to background: ""here it's FREE PALESTINE tagged on the skip outside maccas"". From the intensely compressed first poem ""passing time"" to playful riffs on music, poetry, work, housing, love, ironic observations casually disrupt the immersive surveillance of our era where ""you'll read the news you're given"". Symes's poems lampoon the buffetings of precarity that threaten to jam into permanence. Carousing yet thoughtful, these poems shift their ""patchwork quilt of tiny hatreds"" into a gleeful celebratory humour that upends the cage of mediated life's ""desire cart"" and instagrammed ""tattoo that says NOTHING LASTS""'. Gig Ryan

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Dominic Symes is the author of I SAW THE BEST MEMES OF MY GENERATION. His poetry has since been published in Overland, Rabbit, Transnational Literature, Australian Book Review and Australian Poetry Journal, Award Winning Australian Writing and Best of Australian Poems. He has appeared on the programs of Adelaide Writers Week in 2017 and 2019, and the Emerging Writers Festival in 2020. He lives quietly on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation.

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