‘Fivehundred Swimming Pools occupies the continuum of calamity and quotidian that is oil, spilled or otherwise. Connor Weightman’s petropoems extract, disperse, make visible—amid history and anecdote, trivia and statistic, fact and feeling—a fathom of oil, a rod of plastic. A mile of still air.’

—Shastra Deo

Connor Weightman grew up in Perth/Boorloo and currently lives in Melbourne/Naarm. He holds a PhD from Charles Sturt University. His poems have appeared in various journals, including Westerly, Cordite and foam:e. His music has appeared on MySpace. He has worked as a barista, transcriptionist, critic and academic. He is working on his baking. Fivehundred Swimming Pools is his first collection.