Open House
by David Brooks

A striking new poetry collection from the author of The Conversation

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Overview

Open House reveals David Brooks’ award-winning talent as a writer and imaginative scholar. Opening the house of his life and extending naturally the striking love poetry of his last volume, The Balcony, Brooks’ arrestingly confessional poems range in scale from observations of the smallest creatures underfoot – stepped over, left in peace – to acknowledgements both of the smallness of human endeavour and the catastrophic effects of our custodianship. Vital in all senses, these are poems through which to view the world afresh.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

‘There are poems that persist in the mind long after the last page is reached – and, I expect, the review written.’

The Australian Writer

‘Layered with the dust and confidence of beat poetry, Brooks creates his own repetitions.’

Mascara Literary Review

‘The quiet, unassuming nature of his poetry that comes through even though each poem is brilliantly structured and considered, is what places Brooks in the league of the greats.’

David Brooks

is the author of five previous collections of poetry and several novels and works of short fiction. His The Book of Sei (1985) was heralded as the most impressive debut in Australian short fiction since Peter Carey’s. His novel The Fern Tattoo (UQP, 2007) was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Sydney Morning Herald called his collection of poetry, The Balcony (UQP, 2008), ‘an electric performance’. Until 2013 he taught Australian Literature at The University of Sydney. In recent years he has devoted his writing increasingly to animal advocacy. He lives with rescued sheep in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. In 2014 he was awarded a 2015/16 Australia Council Fellowship for services to Australian and international literature.