Damian Balassone



Year 12 Formal

The band is playing a 50s song. Ice cream chords. Doo wop. Doo wop. Sha-la-la, dooby wah Dum dum dum, yeh yeh, um Quiff-haired singer howling into the microphone. Backing singers swaying in unison. And everyone in that place is …

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Lamb Couplet

While salivating on a lamb cutlet, I rack my brains to write this damn couplet.

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Review Short: Damian Balassone’s Daniel Yammacoona

The first three poems in Damian Balassone’s Daniel Yammacoona are about women who have been left by men. In each case the man appears to be the hero of the story, yet the woman is not necessarily unheroic; in at least two of the poems the heroism is one of steadfastness.

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