| Summary Note |
"What characterises Dan Hogan's poetry is the way that, each time we come close to fully apprehending the impending collapse of capitalism, we are waylaid by something more urgent and mundane: groceries, emails, calls to Centrelink, traffic jams on the way home from work ... 'Secret third thing' is a hyper-real comment on this hyper-real moment: it is suffused with internet culture and reflections on the lives we live, now, largely online ... But Hogan insists on breaching decorum, noting repeatedly how capital perseveres through class: our familial bonds, addictions, symptoms, genders. To be non-binary, as these poems show, is not to just be a secret third thing - as the joke goes, not a man and not a woman - but to, much more seriously, bring class consciousness to bear upon gender." -Eda Gunaydin, "Introduction", p. xiii-xiv. |
