… and while I’m thanking people I shouldn’t leave out all the talented and friendly people at the Southern Performers Interactive Network who invited me to co-compere the final 2015 show at McLaren Vale’s Singing Gallery on December 5th. It was a great afternoon of music and poetry and I finally debuted my spoken-word piece ‘an uneasy clam’!
I’d like to express my appreciation to Poetry on the Fleurieu for having me as Feature Poet at the Signal Point Art Gallery Theatrette at Goolwa yesterday. It gave me half an hour to present a retrospective of my work from all of my collections from 2005 to 2016 (yes I read a few poems which won’t be seen until my Ginninderra collection is released early next year!) Thanks to Alexandrina Council and Friendly Street for their support of poetry in the South, to Nigel Ford for inviting me and the opportunity to hear talented local poets.
Thanks to the Adelaide City Library and Spoken Word SA for my successful residency at the library throughout November. I used the time to familiarize myself with the facilities, meet and get feedback from the patrons and do a weekly performance of some of my work on the theme of “Lost & Found”, culminating in a final performance of new work. The audience was given a booklet of my new work to take away.
The new work (including accompanying original music and slideshow) will be added to the library’s digital collection. I was also guest blogger for the Adelaide Reads website for the month of November on the theme of Lost Manuscripts. Thanks to Shane, Ilona, Zhi and all the anonymous patrons who contributed in some way to my poems. Thanks too to the incredibly helpful library staff – in particular Jo, Peter, Gemma, Pru, Patricia, Luke & Dave.
A poem I began in 2000 after the death of my younger brother Lindsay has just been published again on the Adelaide Independent’s InDaily Poets’ Corner.
Clearview was first published on Australia’s Poetry DownUnder website, followed by Poet’s Porch and Red River Review’s 50th Anniversary edition in 2014 (US).
This year saw its first publication in one of my collections (tropeland.)
microworld
unseen bonds and blocks build a visible universe
crystalcracking clay tessellates to hexagons
molecular bonds carve quartz and angled calcite perfection.
fibonacci in each pinecone, protea, sunflower
geometry of the seen
made from the lego
of the invisible
(from micromacro, 2006)