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Rob Walker

If Clich isa democratically elected form of truth, then Rob Walker is sitting as an Independent and disrupting proceedings from the crossbenches. Hes been warned by the Speaker. Mike Ladd (poet, founding presenter/producer of ABC RNs Poetica) Rob WalkersOriginalClichs is a wry, sardonic, metapoetic and often very funnyexploration of politics, ageing, current affairs, fear, travel, humanweaknesses, technology and much more. This is powerful poetry that cuts with razor sharpness through modernpretensions and the clichs we surround ourselves. Magdalena Ball (poet, author, critic, editor of compulsivereader.com) WalkersOriginal Clichsis a sample bag of poems which twist and turn, probing themselves, and the world, from odd and ingenious angles. He relishes word play and the play of ideas it spawns, one wry eye trained inward while the other peers archly out onto an almost speculative world where what looks like chance could well be synchronicity. Michele Seminara (poet, critic and managing editor of Verity La creative arts journal) Rob Walker journeys through the world of the clich those that we speak, and those that we live and shows us how the personal is political and the political personal. He travels around the world in search of cultural clichs and presents us with clichs of family, love, mental illness and even that old poetic standby, the moon. These eminently readable poems delight you, amuse and inspire us to reexamine those things which we take for granted. You... | Rob Walker Original Clichés Paperback Book