{"id":1410,"date":"2012-05-16T08:19:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T21:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2012-05-16T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T21:36:43","slug":"1410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"circle in the sand"},"content":{"rendered":"

My poem dunes, Perlubie Beach<\/em> <\/a>has long legs \u2013 and it\u2019s taken me a lot of places. Years ago friends Sal & Len Mosley invited us to stay at their friend\u2019s holiday home near Streaky Bay in South Australia\u2019s Far West coast. I wrote a little poem (about a huge system of sand dunes) which was published in The Famous Reporter<\/a><\/em> in Tasmania, on the Numbat Poetry website, and later in my collection micromacro<\/a><\/em>. The poem inspired Belinda Gehlert<\/a> to compose a piece of music for it (\u2018dunes\u2019) and I was invited to perform the poem at the premiere of the piece by Zephyr Quartet <\/a>in Adelaide in Oct 2007 and reprised in Reflections<\/em> at Adelaide Festival Fringe in 2009.<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s inception. The circle is complete …<\/p>\n

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