My poem dunes, Perlubie Beach has long legs – and it’s taken me a lot of places. Years ago friends Sal & Len Mosley invited us to stay at their friend’s holiday home near Streaky Bay in South Australia’s Far West coast. I wrote a little poem (about a huge system of sand dunes) which was published in The Famous Reporter in Tasmania, on the Numbat Poetry website, and later in my collection micromacro. The poem inspired Belinda Gehlert to compose a piece of music for it (‘dunes’) and I was invited to perform the poem at the premiere of the piece by Zephyr Quartet in Adelaide in Oct 2007 and reprised in Reflections at Adelaide Festival Fringe in 2009.

The latest version accompanies a very laid-back blues in which my old mate Len Mosley plays every instrument. It feels very apt, since Len & I were in bands together and he was there at the poem’s inception. The circle is complete …