Scott-Patrick Mitchell

I know you in the brine-infused sea an open wound that carries you away into aquamarine photographs bouncing between satellites before beamed to my bed, a wreck where your touch a ghost waiting to come hitch Anchorage I know you in the praxis of tying nets, unravelling spells to summon the wet oward a place you can haul, muscles flexed to catch noon sun bronzing the medallion of your skin, singing I know you in the paring knife that splits the shell, sweet meat, I am your pearl ready to be...

Scott-Patrick Mitchell’s Clean (Upswell 2022) and Alan Fyfe’s T (Transit Lounge 2022) are books with a deep relation. A poetry collection and a novel respectively, Clean and T were released within less than a year of each other and attracted multiple award listings; and both deal with methamphetamine use in Western Australia, a state which consumes the drug at almost twice the national average. The authors share a longstanding friendship.

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