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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'Sitting alongside the reader observing the cavalcade of images and guest stars: Philip Larkin, Joseph

Merrick, Frances Bean Cobain, Steve McQueen... Lee uses the rush of disparate images and ideas

throughout these poems to sketch out the personal story within the ephemera.'

— Francis Cooke, The Landfall Tauraka Review (Otago University Press)

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Wearing Today can be purchased from the following outlets:

Chapman Books Aotearoa   Fishpond.co.nz  Fishpond.com.au  Wheelers Books

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Note: the pamphlet/chapbook version of 'Wearing Today' was shortlisted for the inaugural Poetry London

Pamphlet Prize 2023, and selected as a finalist for The Fool for Poetry Chapbook Prize 2023 (Munster

Literature Centre), Ireland.

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