Adam Aitken, Archipelago learning how to read and

learning how to read and write from a fellow inmate

near Manila

shortlistedfor the Guardian newspaper’s 2014 Not-the-Booker Prize (both from Equus

In 2020 his book Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness won the New South Wales Premier's Award for Poetry

'Aitken thus puts to use a fractured lineation that often interrupts the flow of the poems

Adam Aitken, Archipelago learning how to read andWinner of the 2021 Patrick White Literary Award Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry 2018 Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry) His most personal poetry to date, Adam Aitkens Archipelago is entirely preoccupied with the experience of living and marrying in France. Much of it written while resident at the Keesing Studio in Paris, and then in the south during a seriously cold spring, many of the poems deal with