{"product_id":"chris-edwards-nicked","title":"Chris Edwards, Nicked","description":"\u003cp\u003eChris Edwards’ second chapbook, \u003cem\u003eNicked\u003c\/em\u003e (2006) is a cabinet of curios offering a sampling of poems in verse and prose, most of them built around (mis)quotations from what the author calls “sources”. Its centrepiece is a dramatic monologue, delivered by a dummy in a wax museum, on the subject of “immutable stabilities”. Topics addressed elsewhere include theft, property rights, refugees, interstellar voyaging, conspiracy theories, global warming, internet dating, the “human body” and its health care systems, the Heinz dynasty, parallel worlds, and a “trip to the grand hotel”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“However much Edwards avoids the traditional role of the poet, he doesn’t really do away with being referential, with a sense of the real world. Instead, he uncovers its utter strangeness … ”  (David McCooey, \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChris Edwards lives in Sydney, Australia, where he works as a freelance editor, typographer and graphic designer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRare Object Number 46.\u003cbr\u003e 20 pages. Published 2006.\u003cbr\u003e Cover image by Kay Orchison.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":241001407,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/edwards_nicked.jpg?v=1347965842","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/ja\/products\/chris-edwards-nicked","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}