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Australian Gothic

Australian Gothic

Warren-Smith, James

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798273404397
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 6 2025
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the fringes of suburban Adelaide, where eucalyptus breathes out secrets to the wind and the Southern Ocean's chill seeps into cracked footpaths, Australian Gothic, a collection of poems that unearths the spectral underbelly of early adulthood, emerges.

The poet uses lines with an eerie cadence to explore the liminal spaces of youth: the suffocating embrace of family homes that have become labyrinthine prisons, midnight drives along foggy highways haunted by forgotten dreams, and the ugly beauty of blooming jacarandas hiding suburban decay. Each poem is full of the raw pain of change, with lost loves echoing in empty playgrounds, identities breaking apart like dry earth, and the slow creep of loneliness in the face of conformity in cul-de-sacs. This collection mixes the strange and the ordinary to create a world where the familiar becomes scary. It invites readers to face the ghosts of their own becoming in the heart of Australia's sun-bleached south.

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