Sunday 5 January 2020

at the 2019 Flying Islands' Poets' Picnic


deep in the drought



















there were eight new books in the Flying Islands' Pocket Poets' Series this year... and we (soft) launched three of them at the picnic

sadly, because of the fires, Canberra, and some others, couldn't come

here was the lineup for the day


THE PICNIC RUNDOWN


2pm to 3pm – at the Music Box
M/C – Greg McLaren
Welcome by Kit
Acknowledgement of Country by Kerri Shying

Kerri Shying’s Knitting Mangrove Roots to be launched by Gail Hennessy

Also reading/performing in this bracket will be:
Stephen Macdonald
Judy Johnson
Linda Adair
David Musgrave
Daniel Ionita
Jill McKeown
Dael Allison


3pm to 4pm – at the Music Box
M/C – Dael Allison
Clark Gormley’s Not What You Think to be launched by Rob Edmonds

Also reading/performing in this bracket will be:
The Markwell Hi-Cats
Brian Purcell
Alan Jefferies
Janette Hoppe
Greg McLaren
Gail Hennessy



4pm to 5pm – at the Music Box
M/C – Brian Purcell
Gillian Swain’s My skin its own sky to be launched by Steve Armstrong

Also reading/performing in this bracket will be:
Jean Kent
Mark Roberts
Steve Armstrong
Rob Edmonds
Irina Frolova
Harold Legaspi



AND BEST OF ALL
IT RAINED
(just a little, but still!)

Thursday 27 December 2018

At the 2018 Flying Islands Poets' Picnic -



At the Flying Islands Poets' Picnic
Sunday December 16th, 2018


where three new pocket books of poetry were launched:

Toby Fitch's Ill Lit Pop 

Magdalena Ball's High Wire Step

Danny Gentile's  The Icicle Tree

and much poetry, music and jamming besides










Wednesday 26 December 2018

Wednesday 19 December 2018

ARBARO


   forest 
  silva 
  غابة 
  hutan 
  forêt 
a  森林
  erdő 
  வன 
 лес




eco-arts residency

for word, image and sound smiths of all sorts
(including poets, musicians, translators, researchers, writers of fiction,
for garden artists, those who paint and/or draw)

committed to art for Earth's sake

more about ARBARO here….