Javant BiarujiaJavant Biarujia is an award-winning poet, playwright and essayist whose works have appeared in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. His iconoclastic status in Australian poetry, and is an unparalleled linguistic confabulator and exponent of Melourne avant-garde poetics since the 1970s. He is the author of seven collections, such as Calques, Low/Life, shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year prize in 2003 and pointcounterpoint: New & Selected Poems 1983- 2008 (Salt, 2007). Biarujia's work hybridizes baroque linguistic ingenuity with deconstructive collage and games of poetic reality that defy straightforward historical alignment. Read More Read Less