Issue 3

College, Collagen, Collision

By:
Dave Drayton
In:
Poetry


Photograph by Johannes Dietschi

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This poem is from Hopscotch, a collection of poems concerned with notions of nostalgia, neighourhoods, family, and larger collections of people; ‘College, Collagen, Collision’ in particular examines how and why people come or are brought together, and the difficulty of navigating the noise that results.

About the author

Dave Drayton was a recreational banjo player, Vice President of the Australian Sweat Bathing Association, founding member of the Atterton Academy, and 2014 recipient of the William Blake Prize for poetry.

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