Adam Aitken: a forensic poet with obsessive resolve

By Jessica Wilkinson, Associate Professor, Writing and Publishing, RMIT University

The first poem of Adam Aitken’s new collection Revenants is a curiosity that demands close attention:

Xmas, Singapore 1957

Much better than that
Melbourne day
in ’56 –
so my father wrote
in blue fountain pen
on airline parchment

to his mother Jean.

Apéro-time then
English goose + trimmings,
a bottle of BOAC Bordeaux,
2 anti-acid for dessert

all in best company.

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