Andrew Galan
For All the Veronicas (the Dog Who Staid)
UWA Publishing, 2017
“It’s a rich collection, with a clear influence drawn from performance poetry, and Galan utilizes conversational, disrupted rhythms to achieve something unique. ”
Winner 2017 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards
About the Author
Andrew Galan writes, performs and works on Ngunnawal Country. He has been published in Solid Air, Rabbit and Concrescence. He has featured at events such as the Newcastle Writers, Red Dirt Poetry and Melbourne Spoken Word festivals. His book, For All The Veronicas (The Dog Who Staid), Bareknuckle Books, won an ACT Writing and Publishing Award. He was an inaugural member of the ACT Arts Minister’s Creative Council and won a Canberra Critics Circle Award for contributions to poetry. He co-edited Australian Poetry Journal’s first volume of spoken word and performance poetry – Spoken and ran poetry slam BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! for ten years.
