Reliefs

by Bruinstroop, Jarad

• ISBN13: 9780702266263
• ISBN10: 0702266264
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-06-10
• Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Summary

In this striking debut, Jarad Bruinstroop offers a frank and tender exploration of Queer history, art, beauty and pain. These poems delight in the audacious power of vulnerability and the revolutionary potential of Queer joy. With skill and wit, Bruinstroop plumbs the manifold pleasures of language in search of connection, transcendence and home. By bearing witness to the lives of Queer people past and present, Reliefs celebrates the resilience of the desiring body and pulses with renewed possibilities.

Author Biography

Jarad Bruinstroop is a writer who lives in Meanjin. His debut poetry collection, Reliefs, won the 2022 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. As the 2022 University of Queensland Fryer Library Creative Writing Fellow, he is developing a novella cycle that draws on Brisbane’ s Queer history and the Fryer Library special collections. In 2023, he won the Val Vallis Award. His work has appeared in Best of Australian Poetry, Meanjin, Overland, HEAT, Island, Westerly, TEXT, Cordite, Australian Poetry Journal, Rabbit and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from QUT where he also teaches. Jarad Bruinstroop is a writer who lives in Meanjin. His debut poetry collection, Reliefs, won the 2022 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. As the 2022 University of Queensland Fryer Library Creative Writing Fellow, he is developing a novella cycle that draws on Brisbane’ s Queer history and the Fryer Library special collections. In 2023, he won the Val Vallis Award. His work has appeared in Best of Australian Poetry, Meanjin, Overland, HEAT, Island, Westerly, TEXT, Cordite, Australian Poetry Journal, Rabbit and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from QUT where he also teaches.

Table of Contents

I Red Cross 3 Scout Night 4 cake boy 5 Bribie Island, 1965 6 Fourth Avenue, Wilston 8 Death of Hyacinthos 10 Silent Film 12 Scene from Bruges 13 Two Cities 14 The Crew of the Zeewijk, 1727 15 Yes, I am still watching 16 The Sportsman Hotel, 3am 18 The Discovery of Antinous, 1894 20 Caravaggisti 21 II Travelling Companion 25 Pool Sweet, 2019 27 Two Figures 32 Landscape near Malabata 34 Two Figures at a Window 35 From an Old Book 36 Unfinished Portrait of Two Figures 37 Nude with Boots 40 Our Lady’ s Juggler 41 She sent him a handwritten note: 42 Loving Cup 43 Sea Cure 44 Pas de Deux for Silhouette and Swan 45 Water on Mars 46 III Fragments on the Myth of Cy Twombly 49 Doubt 52 Change and Smokes 54 The Birth of Astro Boy 56 When even the club kids 57 the house i will be born in 59 School Dictionary 60 Along the Way 62 First Road Trip 64 Black-throated Finch 65 Flood 67 Turns out 68 Driving to Maleny 69 State of California 70 Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey 71 IV Relocation 75 My Version of Having a Soul 76 A week after 77 Cartwheel 78 Homebirth 79 Girl with Dog 80 Late Summer 81 The Opposite of an Avalanche 82 Dream 83 Chartres Cathedral 84 Physique Pictorial 85 Painting the Bedroom 86 Peace Will Look Just Like This Room 87 The Closet 89 2020 90 Peak 93 Envelop 94 Peace Body Pain Body 95 Notes 104 Acknowledgements 107