The sets /
"The sets ranges from reflections on the domestic world and the fragility of the relationships that sustain us, to political and social satire, punching out mashups of fake news and rogue algorithms that mix mordant wit with compressed rage"--Back cover.
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Dunedin, New Zealand :
Otago University Press, Te Whare Tā o Te Wānanga o Ōtākou,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- PROLOGUE: The Sets
- PART ONE: Location, Location
- Life in the Permian
- A Boy
- 602
- The Visitor
- Facebook Sends a Memory
- Collection
- Caput Mortuum
- An Office Worker Contemplates the Pacific Ocean
- Litany
- On the Run
- Straight and Clear
- Stray Light
- The Terrain
- In the World
- The Shape of Things
- A Sea Wife
- An Aztec Jesus Returned to the Streets of Atlantis
- Gallimaufry
- The Crack
- Voice in Darkness
- Snow
- PART TWO: Phoning It In
- The Hierarchy
- How Good Is This?
- The National Conversation
- Alternative Book Titles for an Imaginary Airport Bookstore
- The Prince of Darkness Attends a Work and Income Interview
- Premium
- Land of the Long White Encrypted Cloud
- Man Solo
- Rage Virus
- 30 Arguments Against the Climate Strike
- Interpretations Towards a Contemporary Theology
- The Girls Went Off
- The 21st-Century Book of Doom
- The Contagion
- Discard Archipelago
- The World Ends
- PART THREE: Esplanade, 1979
- Living in the Maniototo
- Selene
- The Spit
- A Lift
- Quantum Decoherence at a Bailter Space Gig, 1989
- City of Bastards
- So As Not to Wake
- Algebra
- Edge of Shadow
- Central Redux
- Port Chalmers
- From the Queen Street Wendy's
- Autumn in the South
- Capricorn and Bunker
- Bat Flu
- The Earth from Space
- Great South Desert
- The Sphere PART FOUR: Dark Water
- 48° 14.5' S, 168° 18.76' E
- Snow Country
- Ocean of Tentacles
- The Hadal Zone
- ENVOI: Song of the Sea.