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{Written by Maja Milatovic, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) ofCha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.}

Lachlan Brown, Lunar Inheritance, Giramondo Publishing Company, 2017.

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Questions of identity and self-definition hold a special place in Lachlan Brown’s artistic imagination. His poetry engages with the elusive concept of belonging in a divided and contested world, within and despite social norms and hierarchies.

Brown’s poetic impulse is to probe the tensions surrounding the need to self-define and the social prescriptions which label those who challenge normative categories.

Brown’s own background attests to the complex worlds he inhabits, growing up in Sydney with a Chinese and Anglo-Australian background.

His first poetry collection, Limited Cities (2012), weaves intimate reflections on suburban locations and their centrality in shaping our sense of self. In an interview with Fiona Wright, Brown addresses his p