Everyone is Everyone Except You

<p><em>Everyone is Everyone Except You</em> the honest and hilarious debut poetry collection from one of Aotearoa's most charismatic poets begins as a eulogy but opens out to a profound acceptance for the less-than-glamorous things that populate a life: failed relationships and confused intimacy; bad advice and poor preparation for manhood. Along the way unexpected joys emerge like eloping to Carterton in a Corolla or getting it on to the memory of the All Blacks. Alternately comical and insightful Jordan Hamel reinvents the time-honoured portrait-of-the-artist for a millennial sensibility.</p>