Hobart Bookshop: Immune Systems

Hobart Bookshop

The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to the launch of Andy Jackson’s new collection, Immune Systems.

Join us for an evening which will include the launch as well as readings from Andrew Bourke and Jane Williams.

In Immune Systems Andy Jackson captures and interrogates the complexity of contemporary India with lyric beauty and an unflinching, yet tender, gaze. In the title suite of poems he explores ‘medical tourism’ − a booming industry in India − from the perspective of a Westerner undergoing surgery and recovery. Through various medical and social interactions, he experiences confusion, insight, anger, small epiphanies and the sheer humanity of other bodies. Political and economic problems inherent in the medical tourism inform the poetry, but the focus is always the human encounter. Similarly in a series of ghazals, Jackson reveals how the metaphysical is embodied in the everyday. The larger questions of love, death, body and spirit live in the seemingly ordinary, while the beautifully cadenced verse is grounded by an assured conversational tone. Immune Systems is a thought-provoking and poignant expansion of his poetic craft and themes.

Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square
When: 5.30pm Wednesday April 22nd

Free event, all welcome.

The Hobart Bookshop
22 Salamanca Square
Hobart Tasmania 7000
ph 03 6223 1803 | fax 03 6223 1804
hobartbookshop@gmail.com
www.hobartbookshop.com.au