Mitchell Welch’s debut collection is an inventive tour de force that sets forth, in the words of Dominique Hecq, 'a poetic universe full of provocation, seeings-into and ludic energy.' In two sections, 'Vehicles Of' and 'Vehicles For', Welch sets up a dialectic between two contrary dimensions of existentialism, exploring through deft poetic lines and language play both the irreconcilable alienation of the individual and the emancipatory potential of community.

Mitchell Welch is a Gold Coast-based writer with an interest in music and visual/ photographic art who has worked as a public servant, cemetery administrator and communications advisor. His writing has appeared in a range of journals and anthologies including Antipodes, Arena, The Australian Poetry Journal, The Best of Australian Poems, Cordite, Meanjin, The Medical Journal of Australia, Overland, Rabbit, Social Alternatives, Short Fiction, Southerly and TEXT. His poems have been shortlisted and/or highly commended for a number of prizes, and he has been the recipient of an Australian Prime Ministers Centre scholarship, the Overland/National Union of Workers Fair Australia Prize for Poetry, and an Australia Council ArtStart Grant.