Pam Brown, Missing up Peter Ramm’s first collection is

Peter Ramm’s first collection is simultaneously an exploration of inheritance

the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Fair Work Prize

and Allan—whether those readers be in Asia

” – Burraga Gutya

” — David McCooey

Pam Brown, Missing up Peter Ramm’s first collection isWinner of the John Bray Poetry Award in the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature These offbeat, fragmentary yet often discursive poems were written over three years up to spring 2015. In part, they epitomize the absurdities of contemporary materialism. Pam Brown's well practised scepticism dismantles monumental intent and splices the remains into a shrewd melange of imagery and thoughtful lyric complemented by playfulness. For Pam writing