Pi O

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Pi O or П O (born 1951) is an Australian, working class, anarchist, poet of Greek origin.^[1]

Born in Katerini, Greece, П O came to Australia with his family to Bonegilla migrant camp around 1954 from where they moved to to the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. He was inspired to start writing poetry in 1970 when he heard Johnny Cash reciting (religious) poetry while tuning his guitar. П O thought he could do as well or better. His work ranges from standup-type rants to 'conceptual' page poetry and concrete poetry, with a heavy emphasis on wordplay and capturing the vitality of everyday speech. Thematically, he commonly portrays the issues of migrant working class life.^{[citation needed]} He has had numerous books published since his first, Fitzroy Brothel in 1974, more notably the epic verse novel 24hrs. From 1978 to 1983, he was involved in producing the radical poetry magazine 925. He is a fixture of Melbourne's performance poetry scene and has edited an anthology of performance poetry (Off the record) for Penguin.

[edit] Bibliography

• Fitzroy brothel: Poems (1974)
• Emotions in concrete (1975)
• street singe (1976)
• л. o. Revisited (Wild & Woolley, 1976) ISBN 0-909331-23-5
• Panash (Collective Effort, 1978)
• Missing Form: Concrete, visual and experimental poems (Collective Effort, 1981)
• The Fitzroy poems (Collective Effort, 1989)
• 24 hrs: The day the language stood still (Collective Effort, 1996) ISBN 0-646-26903-8
• The Number Poems and Other Equations (Collective Effort, 2000)

Edited

• Missing Forms with Peter Murphy and Alex Selenitsch (Collective Effort, 1981)
• Off the record (Penguin, 1985)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The Poetry of Π Ο
• Pi O - An appreciation by Billy Marshall Stoneking
• visual poetry
• Visual Poetry by PiO
• TERRIBLENESS Essay by PI O (in another nomenclature)
• 925 magazine

Persondata
NAME	Pi O
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Contemporary Australian poet
DATE OF BIRTH	1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Greece
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH