Please join us for the launch of Slim Volume, the new poetry collection by James Brown. Slim Volume will be launched by Nick Ascroft, and there will be short poetry readings by Morgan Bach, Nick Ascroft, Ashleigh Young – and James Brown.

Wednesday 17 July
6pm
Unity Books Wellington
57 Willis Street, Wellington
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All welcome!

A slim volume of verse, like a bicycle, offers us fresh and joyful and sometimes troubling ways of seeing the world.

James Brown’s eighth collection of poems begins in childhood and moves through education, jobs and the essential unremarkable activities that occupy our lives – before arriving in a post-apocalyptic future, where the nights run late and down to the wire. The poems are ever-alert to the minutiae of power, the thrill of the unexpected, and the shiny potential of an ending. Always compelling, funny, heartening, Brown speaks volumes even when claiming to have little to say.