I Love Poetry

MichaelFarrell is the most adventurous andexperimental of contemporary Australianpoets, continually pushing the boundaries of what poetry can do. Highlyregarded for the playful rhythms and comic, gestural qualities of his poetry, his poems set language, syntaxand punctuation in motion. His eye for metaphor and the unexpected combination,for punning and the letter in both its verbal and visual aspects - gives hispoetry its unique humour and energy. In poems like 'AC/DC As First Emu Prime Minister