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brb: be right back

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Maree Dawes

Can online sex life becomes more technicoloured than the real thing? With her partner away and the children sleeping, our protagonist joins an online chat. As a newbie, she battles with the language and protocols of cyberspace and wonders if anyone will ever speak to her online. Soon though, our protagonist finds that the vibrancy of online life surpasses her reality. She makes friends, learns the lingo and ponders the meaning of fidelity, humanity and living in the moment. Told from the first person point of view this verse novel uses the language and shape of online chat, email, fragments and stream of consciousness to take the reader headfirst into the world of online life in the nineties. brb: be right back relives the beginnings of social networking with the humour, excitement and dilemmas it can pose.


Paperback, 154 pages, $24.99 + postage

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Praise

‘Dawes deftly parses the sad sass, seductive disassociaton and weightless absurdity of cybersex and an online affair with biting fidelity.’ —Alvin Pang, Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia

‘Maree Dawes is a new and refreshing voice in Australian poetry. brb: be right back – an exciting addition to the verse novel genre – is a blend of lyric, narrative poetry, and cyber-discourse.’ —Barbara Temperton


About the Author

MAREE DAWES is an West Australian poet, published nationally and internationally. Maree’s first collection Women of the Minotaur explored the lives of mistresses in Picasso’s life. It was featured on Poetica in May 2009 and dramatised for the PIAF writers festival 2010. Her short story ‘I am so sweet and truthful’ was adapted into a short film. Maree has collaborated with artists, dancers and embroiderers.

 

 


Publication Details

Published as part of the SW Smalls series, celebrating 10 years of Spineless Wonders.

Additional information

Extent:

154pp

Format:

Paperback

Publication Date:

1 October 2021

RRP:

$24.99

ISBN:

9781925052770

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