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Adam Aitken

Adam Aitken

Adam Aitken is an Australian poet and the author of seven volumes of poetry, including, most recently, Revenants (Giramondo, 2022). He co-edited Contemporary Asian Australian Poets (Puncher & Wattmann, 2013). He was the recipient of the Patrick White Award in 2021.

Adam Aitken reviews 'Mortal Divide: The autobiography of Yiorgos Alexandroglou' by George Alexander

September 1997, no. 194 01 September 1997
Adam Aitken reviews 'Mortal Divide: The autobiography of Yiorgos Alexandroglou' by George Alexander
Mortal Divide is an anti-oedipal odyssey, Joycean roman à clef, migrant memoir, and Orphic mini-epic. Nemerov’s self-reflexive Journal of a Fictive Life is one of its inspirations. George (Yiorgos) is a first-generation Greek translator working at the Multicultural Broadcasting Service. Victim of the media machine, he begins to hear and see things that aren’t ‘real’, including his spectra ... (read more)