Heidegger’s Bicycle

Heidegger’s Bicycle is the last in the serial publication of Alan Loney’s Notebooks. The earlier books are Sidetracks: Notebooks 1976–1991, Auckland University Press, 1998; Melbourne Journal :Notebooks 1998–2003, University of Western Australia Publishing, 2016; Crankhandle: Notebooks 2010-2012, Cordite Books, Melbourne, 2015, which won The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2016.

Alan Loney’s first book of poems was published in 1971. He was co-winner (poetry) in the New Zealand Book Awards in 1977, Literary Fellow at the University of Auckland in 1992, and Honorary Fellow of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne 2002– 2006. He was awarded The Janet Frame Award for Poetry in 2011. Loney has published 15 books of poetry, and eight books of prose with a recent emphasis on the nature of the book. He has recently retired from handpress printing and now is a full-time writer in Melbourne, Australia.