G-d, Sleep, and Chaos

🌟 Winner, WA Premier’s Book Awards 2025, Book of the Year

🌟 Winner, WA Premier’s Book Awards 2025, Poetry Book of the Year

🌟 Highly Commended, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025, Poetry

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.

G-d, Sleep, and Chaos is a collection for the questing mind and the wanting spirit.

Praise for G-d, Sleep, and Chaos

‘Alan Fyfe’s technically accomplished first book of poetry G-d, Sleep, and Chaos is full of grit, the “syntax of West Pinjarra”, out-of-kilter imagery, and a street-smart sharp-tongued wisdom.’

— John Kinsella, The Australian