Shane Strange

Shane Strange’s writing has appeared in various print and online journals in Australia and internationally.  He is the author of two chapbooks  Notes to the Reader and Dark Corner. His first collection of poetry All Suspicions Have Been Confirmed was released in late 2020. He was Festival Director of the Poetry on the Move poetry festival from 2018-2020. He is publisher at Recent Work Press and Artistic Director of Queensland Poetry.

Author's books

All Suspicions Have Been Confirmed

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Disquieting and deeply moving, Shane Strange’s debut collection inhabits a space that is somehow both intimate, and remote. All Suspicions Have Been Confirmed is marked by precise, pared back language, and immediate, hauntingly resonant imagery: we move through the space and places, the cities, the landscapes of these poems almost as we might move through a film, or a vividly remembered dream.

No News: 90 Poets Reflect on a Unique BBC Newscast

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90 poets from across the world reflect on a this marker of a time before the 24-hour news cycle, before the ubiquity of news and information that seems to haunt us through our daily lives. Through this anthology there are poems that capture that moment of nothing but piano music making up an evening news bulletin, poems that contrast this with today’s news, and personal stories grounded in the intervening years.

Giant Steps: Fifty poets reflect on the Apollo 11 moon landing and beyond

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On 21 July, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to step foot on the moon, uttering those famous words: ‘That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.’ To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, 50 poets from around the world were asked to reflect upon the achievement of Apollo 11 and our constantly evolving notions of ‘space’.

Cities: Ten Poets, Ten Cities

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Cities are as complex and unknowable as they are familiar and unsurprising. We can feel as if we know a city intimately, or merely indicate its mysteries to our fleeting perceptions. Or its mysteries can appear in and through the mundane. Cities reveal their collective ghosts through their landscapes, their histories, their people, their sounds and smells. Cities ask us to invent not only ourselves, but a view of ourselves within the cityscape we imagine.

Notes to the Reader

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Once thought lost, this new edition revives Strange’s bizarre experimental manuscript for contemporary audiences.  Allegedly written in a weekend and inspired by a paratext from Clarice Lispector, Notes to the Reader is a collection of twenty-one calls to readers from books and authors long forgotten.