This is the walk for those who love their literature as full of psychedelic longing as their love affairs. Start by draining the rainbow from a smoking unicorn. Then spend an idle moment leafing the pages of an out-of-print edition at Collected Works. Stand in civic pride to close the chapter on your first love, before capping it all off under the corrupt sheen of violating paint. These are poems that aren’t afraid to leave their mark on the city.
Hosier Lane, off Flinders Lane (Sean M Whelan)
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Collected Works Bookstore, Level 1, 35 -37 Swantston St (Maurice McNamara)
Level 1, 35-37 Swanston St
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City Square, Corner of Collins and Swanstons St (Eleanor J Jackson)
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Union Lane, between Little Collins and Bourke Sts (Meaghan Bell)
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Can’t wait to do this next week when I arrive in Melbourne. So cool. x