MANN, Chris

One of the few Australian poets to have acquired an international avant-garde reputation, Mann has also produced highly inventive prose; unusual books, such as On Having Words (1978), which is actually a single sheet of paper approximately sixty inches by forty-two inches, printed on both sides, folded to fit between a pseudo-book cover; and Quadraphonic Cocktail (1987), multitrack radio programs that were broadcast over different Australian channels simultaneously; among other audacious inventions...