ISBN 978-1-922776-32-7.
These poems celebrate life—its mystery, its transience, its moments of quiet joy. And art—how the making of poetry,
song and stories can not only survive our brief lives but can make cogent arguments for survival itself. And death—as the poet jokingly comments, ‘a mix of elegies for dead poet friends and premature elegies for myself’’.
Before he ever was a novelist, Peter Goldsworthy was a poet. He made a memorable poetic debut reading alongside Alan Ginsberg at Adelaide Writers Week in 1972 at just 20 years old. The weaver’s shuttle has moved rapidly. It is eleven years since Pitt Street Poetry published his last celebrated collection The Rise of the Machines and other Love Poems (2015).
And now we are face to face with Tomorrow. A fine new collection, reflecting on a decade marked by literary success and medical misadventure, painstakingly documented in his best-selling memoir The Cancer Finishing School.
What a joy to celebrate once again Goldsworthy’s inimitable poetic voice, poised so delicately between a chuckle and a howl.