Aqua Spinach

Shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal 2019

Melbourne poet Luke Beesley's thirdcollection with Giramondo.

Aqua Spinach rounds out a trilogy of books interested in theaffinities between poetry and other media visual arts, music, andparticularly in this collection, cinema. The poems in Aqua Spinach blend observation, memory and anecdote, producingsurrealistic imagery as they pivot and twist from image to image. They are infusedwith the atmosphere of surrealist cinema, mimicking the films' focus on dreams,fragments and humour, while also speaking to the author's quotidian Melbournemilieu.