Sydney poet (and site member too) Pam Brown has emailed advising the release of her new book Authentic Local by Papertiger Media as part of its ‘soi3 modern poets’ series. Sadly there are no plans for a booklaunch, as Pam is enjoying "a year of downtime".

"Pam Brown’s poetry attends to the soundbites and transitoriness of contemporary Australian life. Her dazzling wordplay gives us glistening souvenirs of overblown politik-speak, uncontrolled Western consumption, and the daze of the habitual and housetrained. Rather than timeshare the modernist experiment, Brown moves beyond its heroics and fashions a commentary that is understated, down to earth, and unsettling. While questioning its own title, what remains marvelled at in Authentic Local is the colloquial and its uncanniness, the utopic harbour glimpse of a home language."

As the book won’t be available at a booklaunch Pam asks interested punters buy a copy of Authentic Local from the Papertiger Media website. Or their local bookshop. Whoever they feel more comfortable hugging with their moneys.

Read a poem from Authentic Local on Pam's blog.

Buy the book from Papertiger

More about Pam Brown at SOI