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    Harnett Lane
    Harnett Lane
    Harnett Lane
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    Harnett Lane

    By Joshua Merten

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    Harnett Lane is Joshua Merten's debut collection of poetry, which speaks to a newfound intimacy with a city, grotesque and quietly vibrant. This distinctly contemporary portrait of Sydney distils a fragmented relationship with place. The work is strongly rooted in Joshua Merten's expatriate upbringing, and is an investigation of an Aust

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateOct 20, 2023
    ISBN9781761096372
    Harnett Lane
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    Joshua Merten

    Joshua Merten is a twenty-year-old queer Australian creative and a graduate from Actors Centre Australia. He is currently based in Lewisham in Sydney's inner west. He lived overseas from the age of four, uprooting to Hong Kong, then to Jakarta, Indonesia, and to Singapore before finishing high school at Barker College in Sydney.

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