Wearing Today
launched in Wellington by Chapman Books Aotearoa
ISBN 978-0-473-74885-2
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Shortlisted for The Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2023 (Otago University Press), Wearing Today is Wes Lee's
fourth poetry collection.
Hypnotic, dreamlike; saturated with the ever-present influence of television and the digital realm. The poems unfold
in a series of image-fragments, illuminating the resonance that forms between disparate images, creating a heightened
sense of reality; reflecting the hyperreal experience of life lived today.
A panoply of scenes arrested in space. As Jackson Pollock said: having the feel
of paint being liquid long after it dries.
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'Wearing Today impressed with its scope, vision, and originality.'
— Anne Kennedy, The Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2023 (Otago University Press)
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Wearing Today can be purchased from Chapman Books Aotearoa, or Fishpond.co.nz, or
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