Product Description
Written amid the COVID lockdowns of 2020–2021, Jake Goetz’s Holocene Pointbreaks presents a triptych of long poems that link three unique ecologies located on the Countries of the Dharawal and Eora Nations (Sydney and the South Coast). An eco-archival experiment in poetic composition, or poetic composting, the work more specifically interrogates colonial histories of resource extraction, taking the reader from morning reflections on one of Australia’s most polluted urban waterways, the ‘Cooks River’, to a discursive rumination on cetaceans while whale watching from the cliffs of Kamay, before digging down into Australia’s colonial ‘coalture’ on the NSW South Coast.
