Poetry

Asymmetry by Aidan Coleman

Item: Asymmetry
Author: Mike Ladd

by Mike Ladd •

September 2012, no. 344

Brandl & Schlesinger, $24.95 pb, 71 pp, 9781921556319

Poetry

Asymmetry by Aidan Coleman

by Mike Ladd •

September 2012, no. 344

In July 2007, at the age of thirty-one, Aidan Coleman suffered a stroke as a result of a brain tumour. Asymmetry is a book in two parts. The first details the poet’s survival after this near-death experience, his struggle to regain full use of his body and to speak and write again. The second part is a group of love poems for his wife, Leana.

Mike Ladd

Mike Ladd lives and writes in Adelaide and is the author of ten collections of poetry and prose. He worked for ABC radio for nearly forty years and for two decades was the presenter and co-ordinating producer of Poetica on Radio National. His Now Then: New and Selected Poems is due out from Wakefield Press in 2024.