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Poetry

open sesame by Michael Farrell

by Peter Kenneally
October 2012, no. 345

open sesame by Michael Farrell

Giramondo, $24 pb, 123 pp, 9781920882846

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 Michael Farrell was the 2012 winner of the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, awarded by this magazine. open sesame is his latest collection of poetry, and an earlier version of it won the inaugural Barrett Reid Award for a radical poetry manuscript, in 2008. It has 123 pages.

 


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open sesame by Michael Farrell

Giramondo, $24 pb, 123 pp, 9781920882846

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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