Paperback. **Winner, WA Premier's Book Awards 2025, Book of the Year****Winner, WA Premier's Book Awards 2025, Poetry Book of the Year****Highly Commended, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025, Poetry**G-d, Sleep, and Chaos is a prayer of thanks for a broken world.Alan Fyfe's debut collection employs a core of Jewish philosophy to explore themes of love, metaphysics, the self-destructive impulse, trauma, and the transcendent. With a boisterous affection for all things absurd and liminal and a bristling loyalty to working class aesthetics, G-d, Sleep, and Chaos includes poems that swing from visceral to hilarious across seven sections, and a range of forms, to ask how we might come by gratitude, and the peace of silence, in our bleakest moments. G-d, Sleep, and Chaos is a collection for the questing mind and the wanting spirit. G-d, Sleep, and Chaos is a collection for the questing mind and the wanting spirit. Winner of the WA Premier's Book of the Year Award 202. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: G-d, Sleep, and Chaos (Paperback)
Publisher: Gazebo Books
Publication Date: 2024
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0645920975
ISBN 13: 9780645920970
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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G-d, Sleep, and Chaos is a startling debut collection that moves between the sacred and the profane, the comic and the devastating, the suburban and the transcendent.

Drawing on Jewish philosophy, mysticism and cultural memory, Alan Fyfe writes from the charged spaces where grief, addiction, love, labour, faith and self-destruction intersect. His poems inhabit train stations, caravan parks, welfare offices, shopping centres, construction sites and family kitchens, transforming ordinary Australian landscapes into places of revelation. Throughout the collection, divine presence appears not in certainty but in absence, contradiction and longing: a barefoot G-d waiting for a delayed bus, angels wandering industrial suburbs, sacred histories surfacing through everyday encounters.

Set largely across Western Australia, the poems are rich with local texture while engaging universal questions about mortality, belonging and meaning. Fyfe's voice is by turns tender, irreverent, philosophical and darkly funny. Formal experimentation sits comfortably alongside lyric intensity, with prose poems, dream sequences, elegies, love poems and midrashic reimaginings woven into a cohesive and deeply human whole.

Across seven sections, G-d, Sleep, and Chaos becomes a prayer for a broken world-one that refuses despair even while staring directly into it. Fiercely intelligent, emotionally fearless and linguistically inventive, this collection establishes Fyfe as a distinctive new voice in Australian poetry.

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Alan Fyfe is a writer from Mandurah, the unceded country of the Binjereb people.He is a winner of the Karl Popper Philosophy Award. His first novel, T, was shortlisted for the T.A.G Hungerford Prize (Australia), the Chaffinch Press Aware Prize (Ireland), and the West Australian Premier's Book Award. G-d, Sleep, and Chaos is Alan's debut poetry collection and was awarded silver for the Flying Islands unpublished manuscript prize.He is currently teaching poetry and creative writing.

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