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The Oblong Plot

The Oblong Plot

The Oblong Plot

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**Shortlisted, NSW Literary Awards 2025, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry**

Moving nimbly between the granular and the broad view, The Oblong Plot, Chris Andrews’ third collection, takes in paint splotches on a sawhorse and a star named Fang, life-wasting systems and means of escape. These faceted, echoing poems observe the world’s shifting arrangements while rearranging their own letters, sounds, syllables, words and lines. The Oblong Plot invites the reader to join in its serious play.

‘I loved this exhilarating, brilliant book. The poems in The Oblong Plot have style and wit to burn, and strike like a tuning fork, reverberating and reshaping the air around us. They are sharply attuned to the ironies and absurdities of contemporary life, finding linguistic torque and wry humour in cityscapes and their inhabitants’ waking lives, dreams and aspirations. In seemingly effortless but technically dazzling syllabics, time and again Andrews punc

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