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Alan Fyfe

Alan Fyfe is a winner of the Karl Popper Philosophy Award, was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, won second in the Tom Collins Poetry Prize, and has been selected as a Four Centres Emerging writer for 2022 / 23. His first novel, T, received shortlistings for both the T.A.G Hungerford Prize (Australia) and the Chaffinch Press Aware Prize (Ireland). T is published by Transit Lounge. Alan’s poetry collection, G-d, Sleep, and Chaos, was awarded silver for the Flying Islands unpublished manuscript award and will be published with Gazebo Books in 2024. Most recently, T was shortlisted for the West Australian Premier’s Award.

Articles by Alan Fyfe:

3 June 20243 June 2024 · Literature

Writing on addiction: a conversation between Scott-Patrick Mitchell and Alan Fyfe

Alan Fyfe and Scott-Patrick Mitchell

Scott-Patrick Mitchell’s Clean and Alan Fyfe’s T 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.

Published in Overland Issue 248 Spring 2022 · Poetry

Poetry | Platform games

Alan Fyfe

You feel the ancient cobblestones under your work boots, steel toe for kicking evil away. In the dripping, humid passage, you see a flicker of red and white. A mushroom speaks, Thank you, Mario, but our princess is in another castle.

Published in Overland Issue 239 Winter 2020 · Poetry

Ocean

Alan Fyfe

Remember when you wrote that poem? On the first line you levered two ideas in five words. On the second line you decided it was a holiday. By the third line you sold your ego to the universe. But the fourth line had you phoning for travel insurance.

Published in Overland Issue 239 Winter 2020 · Poetry

Eulogy for Hasan

Alan Fyfe

My grief wakes up and phones a small town in Turkey. My grief accepts bribes in fresh fruit. My grief beats its imaginary friend. My grief calls out for food from the concrete factory. My grief owns a Citroën but won’t tell anyone.