Two of my pieces have been chosen for Autumn Shorts, part of Adelaide’s Quart Short Literary Reading Nights programme. The works are Your Life ©, a short story, and a memoir piece Holding on.
Professional actors are employed to perform authors’ work. I can’t wait to see how my stories will be interpreted by Patrick Frost!
Some new collaborations on ccmixter.org:
eurostar with airtone and diaphane
http://ccmixter.org/files/robwalkerpoet/55764
This had a brilliant title which I’ve forgotten with Donnie Ozone and Magmavander
http://ccmixter.org/files/robwalkerpoet/55755
Winter sonnets (Rob reading Shakespearean sonnets to the music of Javolenus & Magmavander)
http://ccmixter.org/files/robwalkerpoet/55724
Norfolk Island Pine with airtone
http://ccmixter.org/files/robwalkerpoet/55701
Jay’s Dam, Kondoolka Station with Javolenus
http://ccmixter.org/files/robwalkerpoet/55685
Blackness not with Lisa de Benedictis & airtone
http://ccmixter.org/files/robwalkerpoet/55657
Gravity Waves Back with airtone (Rob’s ukulele)
http://ccmixter.org/files/robwalkerpoet/55616
Patterns as Patternation with airtone
http://ccmixter.org/files/robwalkerpoet/55621
Horses of Childhood with annnabloom
http://ccmixter.org/files/robwalkerpoet/55538
Toppin’ y’self with Speck & Martijn de Boer
Audio: “Watch This Space” (featuring Doxent.)
Composition & keyboards by Doxent. Shakuhachi by Rob Walker.
Artwork: Architecture Drawings.
I’ve been pretty sick all this year and haven’t been out much. So it was a pleasure (if exhausting!) to get along to Adelaide Writers Week yesterday to see Mike Ladd chatting with Adam Aitken and a session curated by Peter Goldsworthy featuring perhaps the best of South Australia’s poets: Steve Brock, Cath Kenneally, Jules Leigh Koch, Louise Nicholas, Jan Owen and Dom Symes. All were excellent in their own way. The surprise bonus was that Peter introduced Ali Cobby-Eckermann who has just won the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize and we were treated to a couple of her poems. Coincidentally on the way in I’d been listening to Mike Ladd’s Earshot podcast Inside my Mother about Ali’s life and poetry. So much poetic talent in this state!