Adam Aitken, Archipelago learning how to read and

learning how to read and write from a fellow inmate

shortlistedfor the Guardian newspaper’s 2014 Not-the-Booker Prize (both from Equus

His poetry sings in the junctures and disjunctions of the cosmopolitan and the mundane

near Manila

linking themselves to each other through translation and e-mails

Adam Aitken, Archipelago learning how to read andWinner of the 2021 Patrick White Literary Award Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry 2018 Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry) His most personal poetry to date, Adam Aitkens Archipelago is entirely preoccupied with the experience of living and marrying in France. Much of it written while resident at the Keesing Studio in Paris, and then in the south during a seriously cold spring, many of the poems deal with