So this one’s not poetry at all – and only ‘writing’ in that I wrote the piece myself and recorded it by multi-tracking ukuleles.

audio: Yes uke can! by robwalkerpoet

video: drawing/animation/speedpaint by Teallight

Four very different remixes of my Vietnamese Dragons poem.

The first is by Tobias Weber (Germany.) HERE.

The second is by Grand City Break (France.) Hear HERE.

The third is by Mana Junkie out of Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada. Listen HERE.

The fourth is h5k. HERE.

Each interpretation is completely different – one of many reasons I love ccmixter!

Vietnamese dragons was first published in Poetry Magazine (US)

(Vol XIV No. 2, Summer 2013)

and later in my collection Original Clichés, Ginninderra Press, 2016

Although I’ve been composing, playing and mixing original music for many years I have mostly avoided linking it to this site.

I began this website as a poetry blog in 2004.

Over time I’ve added short fiction, memoir and music/poetry remixes by me and others. Recently I’ve come around to deciding to include my “back archives” of musical composition as well – after all, it’s all creative composition, whatever form it takes!

Click on the original music button in the header above and explore the solo work, collaborations and production pages if you’d like to browse…

I posted the 7^th Quartet version of this poem in May. This time it’s remixed by Mirek Kuzniar from Germany with an edgy heavy metal driving pulse.

Mirek has remixed and arranged my work more than twenty times. This one is from his album Colored Nights – poems by rob walker.

You can hear more of Mirek’s work on Soundcloud

https://soundcloud.com/mirekkuzniar/

and ccmixter

The Conversation has a fine review by Kevin Brophy of our anthology Shaping the Fractured Self (ed. Heather Taylor Johnson), UWAP.

Read it HERE.