Beschreibung:
'In Mark Mahemoff's Urban Gleanings the routine of the urban commute, punctured by fragile incidents and ruminations, is interspersed with poems drumming against mortality, such as the refugees whose "corpses washed to shore / all in the same boat". Many poems are shaded by nostalgia and a tinkering unease: an old garage where "dreams often end up in mothballs", parents and children cagily circling each other, or watching balloons "disappear into their past". As well as these segmented descriptions of daily life demarcated by a crowded metropolis, two long centos chronicle some recent Australian injustices.' - Gig Ryan