Whip-hot & Grippy by Heather Phillipson Jan Wagner the Age Poetry Book of

the Age Poetry Book of the Year Award

There are consistencies of vision

the faraway friends

to end up with a deafening beetle buried for years in her grandfather’s ear

and with English translations by Richard Zenith and Alexis Levitin

Whip-hot & Grippy by Heather Phillipson Jan Wagner the Age Poetry Book ofWhip hot & Grippy is a highly innovative collection of possibilities in a state of emergency. The first part is a series of long form and sequenced poems punctuated by recurring muzak, advertising speak, sex scenes, terrorism, broadcast media, consumption anxiety, protest, and human animal relations. The book culminates in more flinching, a multi part poem first published and freely distributed in an exhibition in which news of a military dog, shot in