Personal Logistics

Personal Logistics is a collection about men and industry, about enterprise and survival, and about the insignificance of the individual in place and time. The collection details the poet’s experiences and observations of life in the East Kimberley, as someone who has worked as a farmhand and as a stay-at-home dad. Coursing through the collection, in both the wet season and the dry, is the theme of the relation between naturally flowing water and hydroeletricity, without which Kununurra, where the poet resides, would be considerably less hospitable.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
‘Palazzolo’s musings on the everyday zoom in and out of the political, the cultural, the historical, the sensual and more, effortlessly dancing in the intersection between the mundane and the profound – which are really sides of the same coin. Mindfulness comes to mind, in open and focused modes of attention.’ Writing WA

‘Personal Logistics is for poetry readers who are interested in landscapes and portraits of places, perhaps fans of Peter Skrzynecki and Les Murray.’ Books+Publishing

‘Palazzolo invites readers to experience the East Kimberly through the thralled eye of an incomer. A gift for translating the visceral to the page, plus graphic and acutely rendered imagery, ensures that this collection is both intimate and robust. Immersive.’ Jan Napier

‘The “thundering sauna” of the East Kimberley has Chris Palazzolo’s poems set a human sense of Being against a land of apparent Nothingness, a landscape where “more is all there is” under a “ragged hem of stars”.’ Dennis Haskell