*Winner of the West Australian Premier's Poetry Book of the Year

*Winner of the West Australian Premier's Overall Book of the Year

*Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Award

*Named one of the best Australian books of 2024 by John KInsella (The Australian)

G-d, Sleep, and Chaos is a prayer of thanks for a broken world.

Alan Fyfe’s debut collection employs a core of Jewish philosophy to explore themes of love, metaphysics, the self-destructive impulse, trauma, and the transcendent. With a boisterous affection for all things absurd and liminal and a bristling loyalty to working class aesthetics, G-d, Sleep, and Chaos includes poems that swing from visceral to hilarious across seven sections, and a range of forms, to ask how we might come by gratitude, and the peace of silence, in our bleakest moments