{"product_id":"clean","title":"Clean","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlso available as an Audiobook\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIn this volume, Scott-Patrick Mitchell propels us into the seething mess of the methamphetamine crisis in Australia today. These poems roil and scratch, exploring the precarious life of addiction and its sleep deprivation. From an unsteady and unsavoury life, we are released into the joy of a recovery made through sheer hard work. Even in the disintegration, the poet points us towards love and carries tenderness every day in memory. Scott-Patrick Mitchell’s decades of spoken-word practice has enabled a fine tuning on the page when, for so many readers, we enter into an alien zone of unknowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Our lucent teeth spark the rainbow dark.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHere, we do not use words like love.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eInstead, we speak with hands that hold\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas shoulders tussle\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ethe roughhouse rougher.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eIn the absence of daylight,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewe are just two young men,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esilent save for giggle and shoe scuff:\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ewe do not rouse suspicion when touching\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eScott-Patrick Mitchell \u003c\/b\u003eis a WA-based non-binary poet who is a guest on unceded Whadjuk Noongar land. SPM’s work appears in \u003ci\u003eContemporary Australian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSolid Air\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStories of Perth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGoing Postal\u003c\/i\u003e. A seasoned performance poet, Mitchell has toured Australia with works that have fused language and minimal baroque. A focus for the poet is in building community through their work with Perth Poetry Festival and WA Poets Inc’s Emerging Writers Program. They live with two black cats, Beowulf and Bones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover artwork: Penny Coss\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upswell Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42238582718519,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":42279971225655,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/7771\/2951\/files\/2268_UP_Clean-front-coverfinal.jpg?v=1779074709","url":"https:\/\/upswell-publishing.myshopify.com\/products\/clean","provider":"Upswell Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}