{"id":1436,"date":"2024-02-25T14:38:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T14:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayasavige.com\/?page_id=1436"},"modified":"2024-02-25T18:18:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T18:18:58","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jayasavige.com\/index.php\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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BOOKS<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Change Machine<\/em> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2020, University of Queensland Press <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2729 Shortlisted for the 2021<\/em> \u2729<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry,
NSW Premier\u2019s Kenneth Slessor Prize<\/em>,
QLA Judith Wright Calanthe Prize<\/em>,
& the Queensland Premier\u2019s Award for a work of State Significance <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\ud83d\udcda Book of the Year 2020<\/em> \ud83d\udcda <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>,
Australian Book Review<\/em>,
The Australian<\/em> &
ABC Radio National’s Bookshelf<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tough and alert, Savige’s shapeshifting poems reflect the world in violent transformation. Bodies scarred by history collide in the ruckus of generations, geopolitics and technology. Elegies appear alongside poems that set a pulse to new life, biometric surveillance, leaf blowers, fatbergs, mechanical pets and military coups. A work of fiercely intelligent artistry, Change Machine<\/em> is shaped, equally, by feeling – its wild originality comes from how it forces the two together. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u2729 PRAISE for Change Machine<\/em> \u2729 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018I found myself frequently cursing under my breath and sometimes out loud at the absolute harmony between formal virtuosity and emotional gut-punch, ambition of concept and conviction of execution. Savige\u2019s poetry is deeply funny and moving and outward-looking in every stanza. Change Machine is an important collection and one I know I\u2019ll be re-reading for years to come.\u2019 <\/p>\nLUKE KENNARD, author of Notes on the Sonnets<\/a><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018There are some books that need years in the making to become what they are, and Change Machine<\/em> is one of them.<\/em> It is one of the finest volumes of innovative poetry to come out of Australia in two decades. It tunes and detunes; it gives new locutions to experiencing the static and detritus of late modernity; it reinvents wheels within wheels to upset conversations between centres and peripheries. A work of genius in the humanistic sense, but also in the sense of \u2018begetting\u2019 \u2013 Savige makes new with every poem.\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\nJOHN KINSELLA, author of Spirals, Collected Poems Volume Three (2014-2023)<\/a><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n