Wearing Today

launched in Wellington by Chapman Books Aotearoa

ISBN 978-0-473-74885-2

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Shortlisted for The Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2023 (Otago University Press), Wearing Today is Wes Lee's

fourth poetry collection. 

Hypnotic, dreamlike; saturated with the ever-present influence of television and the digital realm. The poems unfold

in a series of image-fragments, illuminating the resonance that forms between disparate images, creating a heightened

sense of reality; reflecting the hyperreal experience of life lived today.

A panoply of scenes arrested in space. As Jackson Pollock said: having the feel 

of paint being liquid long after it dries.

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'Wearing Today impressed with its scope, vision, and originality.' 

— Anne Kennedy, The Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2023 (Otago University Press)

'Powerful ruminations on what it means to be alongside one another in this world, as miraculous beings, 

despite our wounds and losses.' 

— Natalie Diaz, The Plaza Poetry Prize 2025

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'A passion and feeling for language.'

— George Szirties

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Wearing Today can be purchased from Chapman Books Aotearoa, or Fishpond nz

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