{"product_id":"at-the-noisy-caf-9781922954329","title":"At the Noisy Café","description":"The eighty poems in \u003cem\u003eAt the Noisy Café, \u003c\/em\u003e stone-skip across\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ethe Shakespearean elements of misconception, reason versus emotion, fate and the fantastical, idyllic setting, insult, separation, reconciliation and happy endings. Song of Nestor is a ninety-line Homeric epic that tells the little-known David-and-Goliath story of St Nestor and the Vandal-giant, Lyaeus. The startlingly original Cavafy Villanelles, depicts, in verse-form, a sequence of ten little known biographical details of the famous Greek poet's life. The Murder of Albert King and Broad Arrow Café memorialize two traumatic community tragedies. There are lightning-strike flashbacks from the Australian poet's Italian-American Ohio childhood with Kissing grandma, Frozen kittens and the humorous, Miss Ohio dummy, and tender poems of love and heartbreak in I never found those lips again, \u003cem\u003eAloysius' lament, \u003c\/em\u003e Daddy plus one and Our loss. Over the past six years, every poem in \u003cem\u003eAt the Noisy Café \u003c\/em\u003ehas been published individually in poetry journals in Australia and overseas. This is the first time they have been collected together in one volume. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoe Dolce is the recipient of the \u003cstrong\u003eAdvance Australia Award\u003c\/strong\u003e, the winner of the \u003cstrong\u003eUniversity of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Health Poetry Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e and the \u003cstrong\u003e25\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Launceston Poetry Cup.\u003c\/strong\u003e He was a \u003cstrong\u003e2020 City of Melbourne Poet Laureate\u003c\/strong\u003e and included in \u003cstrong\u003eBest Australian Poems\u003c\/strong\u003e twice. His songs have been recorded by hundreds of artists internationally. Les Murray AO, recipient of the \u003cstrong\u003eTS Eliot Award\u003c\/strong\u003e and the \u003cstrong\u003eQueen's Gold Medal for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e wrote:  'Renowned songwriter Joe Dolce has long outgrown the pop lyric and moved into a risky domain where recitative, comedy, folk and slapstick build shelters for themselves among social commentary and the poetry of lists.' \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Busybird Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781922954329\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Joe Dolce","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43140592337077,"sku":"9781922954329","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d86cb2d5-1b8f-4dc2-a29a-e6d2c5d6ecf0.jpg?v=1695701865","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/at-the-noisy-caf-9781922954329","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}