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Shangri-la, no date, (framed),

Shangri-la, no date, (framed)

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Published in The Number Poems (Melbourne: Collective Effort Press, 2000).
 

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"The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the small ones... Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers." - Ronald Graham

Shangri-la includes a series of rare palindromic prime numbers, culminating in the beatific number one, which floats in the heavens. A cosmic zip to the universe, Shangri-la is a number, a poem, an image and a path to the everlasting.

It is difficult to overstate the significance of π.o. (pi.o) to Australian poetry. π.o.'s number poems are an example of his originality and wild creativity. While his book The Number Poems was published in 2000, π.o. will point out that he has been working with numbers since his first collection, Fitzroy brothel: Poems in 1974. His name, another number poem, dates from even earlier.



 

 
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"π.o. (pi.o.) is legendary figure in the Australian poetry scene. Born in Greece and brought up in Fitzroy, he is a chronicler of Melbourne and its culture and migrations, and an anarchist who has worked as a draughtsman for forty years to support his art. He is a publisher and editor, and the author of many collections, including Fitzroy Poems, Big Numbers: New and Selected Poems, and the epic works 24 Hours, Fitzroy: The Biography, and HEIDE. Published by Giramondo in 2019, HEIDE won the 2020 Judith Wright Calanthe Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry. His latest book,The Tour, was longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal. He won the 2024 Patrick White Literary Award, and is a finalist for the 2024 Melbourne Prize for Literature." - Giramondo Publishing

 
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