Launch of BN Oakman’s 3rd poetry book, Backtrack, with IP.

5th May, @ The Old Church on the Hill, Quarry Hill, VIC

Description

Backtrack, BN Oakman’s third full-length collection, is a suite of poems created in response to an observed, often baffling, world. Oakman writes with conviction in a direct and lively style, while employing various poetic forms to explore a wide range of emotions and experiences. He gives us poems crafted with empathy and humour about transient joys, abiding sadnesses, persistent injustices, fleeting triumphs and unassuageable grief – the whole exasperating mess and muddle of it all. Here are poems to engage the mind, touch the heart, nudge us to laughter, and occasionally, move us to tears.

BN Oakman’s first book with IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd) was In Defence of Hawaiian Shirts (2006).

This was followed by Second Thoughts and the audiobook What Did I Know.