I can think of no higher praise for a book than to call it Andrew Bolt's worst nightmare - and Solid Air is just that.

It pushes the bounds of what we think of as a "poetry collection", challenging the erasure of performance poetry, slam, and hip-hop from the publishing world. It is a comprehensive view of the spoken word landscape of the past decade, with poets and performers coming together in chorus to amplify and echo a diverse community voice. This book will - literally, at times - force you to look at poetry from a kaleidoscope of angles.

A must-read for poets and non-poets alike. The next time someone says they "don't read" poetry, force it into their hands.