This book takes epic verse into new and sometimes astounding directions. A heretic priest turned spice trader crosses time to tell the true story of the first circumnavigation of Earth, not by Magellan, as commonly thought, but by his slave Enrique. Cultural icons, Allen Ginsberg, Peggy Guggenheim and Ezra Pound, dancing around each other in 60s Venice and beyond, looking for love and the meaning of art in all the wrong places. Stephen Stockwell has been a wordsmith courting controversy for 50 years and in this book, he uses traditional poetic forms to tell some big stories in unexpected ways. Also included are shorter poems recounting various adventures in the pursuit of enlightenment and lyrics he wrote for the Brisbane punk band, The Black Assassins.
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Stephen Stockwell is Professor Emeritus in Journalism and Communication at Griffith University. Previously he worked as a journalist at 4ZZZ, JJJ and Four Corners and as a press secretary. He plays keyboard and sings for Brisbane punk band, The Black Assassins, was on the editorial collective of the Cane Toad Times 1983-91 and, as an independent film-maker, wrote and produced Brain Blast and other experimental, community and music videos. He taught at Griffith on the Gold Coast 1996-2016 and wrote All Media Guide to Fair and Cross-Cultural Reporting (with Paul Scott), Political Campaign Strategy and Rhetoric and Democracy and co-edited two books with Ben Isakhan – The Secret History of Democracy and The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy. He lives at Burleigh Heads on the land of the Kombumerri clan of the Yugambeh people.
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