Dane Swan: 3 books

Larrikin, laid-back, too casual, bad influence, ball magnet and superstar these are just some of the labels given to Dane Swan, one of the great characters of the AFL’s professional era. Taken by Collingwood at pick 58 in the 2001 ‘super draft’, no one saw a future Brownlow medallist but the...

"L _ _ _": A poetic study of relationships is the first in a series of collaborative projects that poet Dane Swan is loosely calling his "mixtape culture" series. For "L _ _ _" Dane invited members of his online social network to send their work on relationships. He was pleasantly surprised when he...

The poems in Bending the Continuum are slave to no genre. Science-fiction, alternative realities, and time are fluid. Form, voice and space in this collection borrow from multiple canons. Dane’s first book is equal parts Can-lit, Harlem Renaissance, the Caribbean oral tradition known as Griotism, Roddenberry, hip-hop and dark-humour.{Guernica Editions}