An interesting form invented by Julie Carter.(from my old website, two years ago, today):
“aspiring poets! Have a go at a Julain. Here’s mine:
Selfgoogling as a pastime’s quite inspiring.
Eponymous achievements will ensue –
the anticlimax is; it isn’t you…
Australian poet / novellist /editor John Kinsella will officially launch Friendly Street Poets’ 32nd annual reader REWIRED and New Poets 13 at Adelaide Writers’ Week on 2nd March. I’m sorry I can’t be there. Co-editor Maggie Emmet emailed to say my poems Automatonophobia and Isaac the Unchosen will be included in REWIRED.
In the middle of a freezing Himeji day I recall that on this day last year my poem January Drought was posted on the Australian Reader website.
Thanks to the indefatigable Dave Barnes, I have three new poems posted on his Poetry Down Under / Numbat website:Love as service, japanese lessons on the bullet train, Karaoke at the birthday party and George The Younger. More HERE.
07/01/08. The South Australian poet is now in Japan. I begin work at Sanyo Junior High, Himeji, tomorrow. If you’d like to follow my Japanese adventures, I’m keeping a photo-journal called Wakarimasen (“I don’t understand!”) The website address is http://robwalkerpoet.blogspot.com/