Everyone Is Everyone Except You
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ISBN 9781991150622
Award winning poet Jordan Hamel's debut collection 'Everyone is everyone except you' is a rickety rollercoaster ride through a house haunted by society's dumbest ghosts. Taking an anxious look around and inside himself, Hamel uses these poems to reflect on and interrogate masculinity, sexuality, mental illness, productivity and all the rest of your favourite false idols with humour, heartbreak and absurdity. Featuring an all-singing, all-dancing cast of characters including life coaches, pool boys, priests, farmers, All Blacks, Danny Ocean, Paris Hilton, the Briscoes lady, Mel Gibson, Carrie Bradshaw, Goku and the big guy upstairs, you don't want to miss this tender, inventive, ambitious offering from one of Aotearoa's most exciting new poets.
Published by Dead Bird Books, May 2022
Wholesale $15.00 + GST
RRP $30.00
ISBN 9781991150622
Award winning poet Jordan Hamel's debut collection 'Everyone is everyone except you' is a rickety rollercoaster ride through a house haunted by society's dumbest ghosts. Taking an anxious look around and inside himself, Hamel uses these poems to reflect on and interrogate masculinity, sexuality, mental illness, productivity and all the rest of your favourite false idols with humour, heartbreak and absurdity. Featuring an all-singing, all-dancing cast of characters including life coaches, pool boys, priests, farmers, All Blacks, Danny Ocean, Paris Hilton, the Briscoes lady, Mel Gibson, Carrie Bradshaw, Goku and the big guy upstairs, you don't want to miss this tender, inventive, ambitious offering from one of Aotearoa's most exciting new poets.
Published by Dead Bird Books, May 2022
Wholesale $15.00 + GST
RRP $30.00
ISBN 9781991150622
Award winning poet Jordan Hamel's debut collection 'Everyone is everyone except you' is a rickety rollercoaster ride through a house haunted by society's dumbest ghosts. Taking an anxious look around and inside himself, Hamel uses these poems to reflect on and interrogate masculinity, sexuality, mental illness, productivity and all the rest of your favourite false idols with humour, heartbreak and absurdity. Featuring an all-singing, all-dancing cast of characters including life coaches, pool boys, priests, farmers, All Blacks, Danny Ocean, Paris Hilton, the Briscoes lady, Mel Gibson, Carrie Bradshaw, Goku and the big guy upstairs, you don't want to miss this tender, inventive, ambitious offering from one of Aotearoa's most exciting new poets.
Published by Dead Bird Books, May 2022
Praise
Jordan Hamel's Everyone is Everyone Except You, has all the propulsive, malevolent comedy of Mel Gibson screaming Paradise Lost on a segway, being chased by a flock of enraged geese. It's high romanticism with a Monster Energy aftertaste. It's so overloaded with cultural baggage it shouldn't be able to get off the ground, until the relentless momentum of the meter propels it inevitably upwards, like an Airbus A380, the cargo-hold writhing with rare and picturesque snakes. Richard Siken with a flesh-light, Briscoes lady, Dragon-Ball Z chic. Both emotionally-wrong footed and diabolically sincere, a brilliant & compulsive read.
—Hera Lindsay Bird
It’s giving very much undiagnosed adhd and my last two remaining brain cells from an over exposure to AO television at a premature age. It’s giving very much beef fed dad bodyodyody, but introspective, and sensitive, and *tucks hair behind his ears* not like other girls… Everyone is Everyone Except You, the debut collection by Jordan Hamel, is completely batshit, whip smart and spit-out-your-Tui or VB crack up….. but mostly it’s full of heart and all the trouble the heart demands.
—Tayi Tibble
Jams the machinery of algorithmic life, makes toxic masculinity its sextoy and scripture its Netflix re-runs. Hamel is the captain of a new breed with deadly mouths, slick-as-hell footwork and heavyweight hearts. Jesus doesn't love him but I do.
—Tracey Slaughter