Ruined Man

About Ruined Man:

A late night Brisbane street corner, a wine glass the morning after, a discarded suit from his father-in-law. With shadows in his mind and the breath catching in his throat, Nunn celebrates a series of intimate moments. Pulling us in and making them real. It’s a world of silent mirrors, drinks, parties, escaping Leonard Cohen albums to find “the streets/a beautiful menu of poems”. There is beauty and sadness in equal measure, it’s honest, open and beguiling.

Andy White
Singer/Songwriter/Poet

 

Graham Nunn writes city poems with electric imagery, pulsing with loss and desire. His words are carved out of bruises, his phrases flicker like strobes around the bars and the long streets of the night.

Ron Pretty
Poetry Australia Foundation

 

Sample poem:

 

Brisbane Love Poems

1. Brisbane, how I love
your pastel-painted sunsets

2. I have seen G.W. McLennan
walking the streets of your town

3. Prostitutes sweating on street corners
like strange, erotic parking meters

4. A young musician wearing beautiful
dark glasses, inhaling the scent
of quarter past four in the morning

5. The skull of a cat nestled in the gutter
after a big rain

6. Windows shining in lonely streets
like artificial flowers

7. Pigeons picking over the remains
of a broken love affair

8. And still-born poems waiting
at the doorstep wrapped
in filthy newsprint

 

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