Book launch

p0sthuman: Peter Jerrim in conversation with Danielle Wood

In these poems of love, heartbreak, loss and desire, Peter Jerrim reimagines his past to find hints of the beings who could come after us.

He identifies in the commonality of human experience the seeds of a posthuman future. But this book is not prophetic. It’s about ‘the evening before’. Can we read the past as love song, tragedy, or science fiction? What is it be human? Or to be ‘p0sthuman’? And what is it to love, and be loved? Is it the quest for the other, the vulnerable human who in the end sees the sum of their life evaporate?

Here are elusive and exhilarating poems about our necessary, vulnerable existence. Wry, heartbreaking, breezy, ecstatic, Jerrim’s poems bounce off each other, or appear to suddenly merge as their meaning begins to reveal itself.

Peter started writing on a portable typewriter in the 1950s. But he never got far, until the early nineties when he encountered the World Wide Web. After writing 14,000 web pages of fiction, medical and commercial content, last year he decided to stop and simply put poems on paper. His first collection, p0sthuman, is selected from poems written between 1991 and 2022.

Peter will be in conversation with Danielle Wood, Tasmanian writer of fiction, non-fiction, essays and prose poetry, and author of The Alphabet of Light and Dark.

Join them at the Afterword Cafe.

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