Where I Slept

Angel, Libby
Where I Slept

Where I Slept

Angel, Libby

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When he asks what kind of work I do, I tell him I am a poet.

'Poetry will break your heart,' he says.

'Or, perhaps it is the only thing that won't,' I say.


In this startling work of autofiction the unnamed narrator plunges us headlong into 1990s Melbourne bohemia-a whirlwind of friends and strangers, decadence and despair, sex and drugs-through the places she slept: a boarding house with drug-addled landlord, share houses of aspiring artists and petty criminals, and roughing it on the streets.


She lives for poetry and hungers for beauty, purpose and a place to anchor herself. Her voice is ironic, deadpan and darkly comic, an Artline marker her weapon of choice in expressing her presence in a city both richly accommodating and indifferent.


Libby Angel's brilliant new work is filled with characters you'll wish you knew and those you're glad you don't. Where I Slept is an unforgettable portrait of a life on the fringes, a poem of longing and desire.

Author:   Angel, Libby
Publisher:   Text Publishing
ISBN:  

9781922458629


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 May 2023
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.

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When he asks what kind of work I do, I tell him I am a poet.

'Poetry will break your heart,' he says.

'Or, perhaps it is the only thing that won't,' I say.


In this startling work of autofiction the unnamed narrator plunges us headlong into 1990s Melbourne bohemia-a whirlwind of friends and strangers, decadence and despair, sex and drugs-through the places she slept: a boarding house with drug-addled landlord, share houses of aspiring artists and petty criminals, and roughing it on the streets.


She lives for poetry and hungers for beauty, purpose and a place to anchor herself. Her voice is ironic, deadpan and darkly comic, an Artline marker her weapon of choice in expressing her presence in a city both richly accommodating and indifferent.


Libby Angel's brilliant new work is filled with characters you'll wish you knew and those you're glad you don't. Where I Slept is an unforgettable portrait of a life on the fringes, a poem of longing and desire.

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Author:   Angel, Libby
Publisher:   Text Publishing
ISBN:  

9781922458629


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 May 2023
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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