DOMINIQUE HECQ
After Cage 2nd edition
‘After Cage – a serial composition in word and movement on time and silence reimagines poetry in a liminal space between page and stage, mind and body, stillness and movement, pattern and chaos. This is ‘poetry / summoning itself’ against the fears of extinction that dominate our times, showing us what it is to be perilously but brilliantly alive.’ Maria Takolander
After Cage as first published by Girls on Key Press in 2018. This second edition published by Liquid Amber Press includes revised content and layout of the poetic sequence plus an extended contextualizing essay in which the poet reflects on the interplay of written text, performativity, music and silence.
An extra pleasure in reading After Cage is hearing Dominique Hecq performing her work. Purchasers of the book receive access to an audio file to listen as well as read.
Available as Downloadable PDF or Soft cover book

about the Author
Dominique Hecq
Dominique Hecq grew up in the French-speaking part of Belgium. She now lives in Melbourne on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Hecq writes across genres and disciplines – and sometimes across tongues. Her creative works include a novel, five collections of short stories and twelve books and chapbooks of poetry.
Liquid Amber Press is privileged to publish the second edition of Dominique’s After Cage – a serial composition in word and movement on time and silence
MARK O'FLYNN
Undercoat: Poems about Paintings
The poems in Undercoat contemplate painting as process, painting as storytelling, painting as mystery – visual art transfigured through the precision of a poet’s ear. The work is notable for vivid descriptions and adroit conjurings of texture and colour. There’s also a vein of old-school Australiana – shandies, black-and-white TVs, laminex tables. The writing is by turns lyrical, rackety, elegiac. Permeating the collection is a warm humour and a deep respect for all things: ‘Even horses deserve memorial. Even stones.’
Tricia Dearborn
Available as Downloadable PDF or Soft cover book

about the Author
Mark O’Flynn
Born in Melbourne, Mark O’Flynn now lives in the Blue Mountains on Dharug–Gundengurra land. He has published six collections of poetry as well as novels, collections of short stories and a memoir. His novel The Last Days of Ava Langdon (2016, UQP) was shortlisted for both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Prime Ministers Literary Award, and was winner of the Voss Literary Award (2017). His poems have won the Banjo Paterson Open Poetry Prize, the Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Prize, the John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award, the Australian Icons prose poetry competition, the Booranga Prize and the IP Best Poetry Award. He has been shortlisted five times for the Newcastle Poetry Prize.
Liquid Amber Press is thrilled to publish Undercoat: Poems about Painting – Mark’s most recent poetry collection.
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