‘One of the finest volumes of innovative poetry to come out of Australia in two decades’
John Kinsella
Sarah Holland-Batt
A 2020 Book of the Year
Australian Book Review
ABC Radio National
Sydney Morning Herald
The Weekend Australian
‘dazzling … intoxicatingly inventive’
‘One of the finest volumes of innovative poetry to come out of Australia in two decades’
John Kinsella
Sarah Holland-Batt
A 2020 Book of the Year
‘What sets Change Machine apart is the exquisite marriage of feeling to linguistic ambition and an exuberant gift for verbal generation. This combination is rarely distilled to such proof.’
Judith Bishop
— Australian Book Review —
Luke Kennard
‘I found myself frequently cursing under my breath and sometimes out loud at the absolute harmony between formal virtuosity and emotional gut-punch’
‘A beautifully deft interweaving of domestic love and cosmic quest’
Ruth Padel
‘Savige’s stunning second volume braids the intersections of political histories and intimate love. With craft and commitment he animates the objects of this world to skyrocket effect. Surface to Air is a tough and tender book, it’s just what we need.’
Peter Gizzi
‘Witty, urbane, possessed by playfulness, this is a book of slippages and switcheroos, as allusive as Ulysses … Time and again, the poet’s alertness to sound acts as a vigil on behalf of the disappearing … Savige testifies to the fact that artistic creation is inextricable from creation itself.’
DANIELLE CHAPMAN
— Orion Magazine —
‘The poems in latecomers go beyond what we take for granted these days in a first collection: refinement of language and cadence, allusiveness, wit. Moving easily through abstract wonders and the streets of the inner city, they return for nourishment to family and ‘the Island’ – Bribie, its fishing-life and beaches – as a test always of what is native and endures.’
