- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- ISBN 9781922777928
- Release date 12 August 2025
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A Savage Turn
SHORTLISTED, 2026 QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS, JUDITH WRIGHT CALANTHE AWARD FOR A POETRY COLLECTION
SHORTLISTED, 2026 AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS, SMALL PUBLISHERS' ADULT BOOK OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED, 2026 NSW LITERARY AWARDS, UTS GLENDA ADAMS AWARD FOR NEW WRITING
SHORTLISTED, 2026 ALS GOLD MEDAL
HIGHLY COMMENDED, 2026 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS, INDIGENOUS WRITING
A Savage Turn is a searing debut from a Gamilaroi author. Using his biting wit and refreshing insight into modern and traditional life, Luke Patterson takes readers to forest billabongs, to prisons, and into nightmares of the not so distant past.
Along the way, he sends up the Australian dream and subverts expectations to create a seductive poetry collection sampling from a kaleidoscope of critical theory, modernist poetry, postcolonial irony, eco-romanticism and western folklore.
Praise for A Savage Turn
"I was instantly caught by Patterson’s evocative, impassioned storytelling..."
- Ocean Trimboli, Readings
"...Patterson...unpacks colonial myth and legacy, subverts reader expectations, and teases out a tenderness that nourishes this collection."
- Raelee Lancaster, Australian Book Review
"Poetry that pulses with power and purpose."
- Rudi Bremer, ABC AWAYE!
"This is a brilliant and perceptive, comedic and cutting collection."
- Michael Griffiths, Mascara Literary Review
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- ISBN 9781922777928
- Release date 12 August 2025
- Category
- Resources
