Poems

Poems - intro

Sunday afternoon with translation notes

Videos

Intro - video-poems

Separations Show, Balmain, Oct 7-9, 2011

Music/Poetry

Images

Links

Archived

Nov - Dec 2011
Xmas in Australia, NSW's rarest bird, 'Driving into a Photograph', Blue tongue in the strawberry patch, Humpback whales.


Sept - Oct 2011
Spring Valla, All Hallows Eve, Genocide, Bird Lane Nettle show Balmain, Spring poems, 3 key terms, Beauty, Soulfood with Will Barton, Nambucca photographs

June to Aug 2011
Autumn Valla, Overseas in Ireland, UK, Rousseau on St Pierre, Venice Biennale and more

May 2011
Our Japanese garden; marine parks controversy; slang - drongo /galah; birding; planetary alignments; dogs in national parks; classification - Borges, Wilkins; Ai Wei Wei; Tsai Yu-Long; Artists' responsbility; Pakistan,

April 2011

Beetles; the Bellingen Readers & Writers festival; SLN Quiz; Gumbaynggirr Elder, Auntie Bea Ballangarry wins; Reading with Mary White; the slow art of bushwalking; sustainable bush tucker; Fracking; adventures in music; RIP Poly Styrene & God; over population 

Feb-March 2011
Oyster Creek, B's show at the Federal,
Happy in Valla, Myrtle Rust, mp3 dawn chorus, sunrises  

Jan 2011
What is a poem; Mary White; teaching ecopoetry; Andy Goldsworthy; sculptures


Nov-Dec 2010
Eco-love poem; Bron's show, Camperdown; highway carnage

Oct 2010
W4F; Ceps; biodiversity; piano poems; Nimbin

2010 Archive
Overseas: Suzhou, Amersham, Napoli; Tate Modern

2010 Archive
Jan to May: moving north; Bron's shows, Balmain, Bondi; poems

2009 Archive 
Aug to Dec

2009 Archive
Jan to Aug

2008 Archive

FAQ

Essais

Leaving the City (has Sydney lost its Mojo?)

Cities when to visit

BRWF 2011

FAQ

Why is the universe here, and not nothingness?

If there is a god, why is he/she/it so shy?

Why does Genesis have nothing to say on why God created Homo sapiens?

Why is the sky blue? (Rayleigh scattering doesn’t cut it)

Why did faith (an inner conviction of certainty) take over from traditional rituals sufficient for animalist and pagan worshippers?

Why do you believe the late Stephen J Gould when he writes, "We are, whatever our glories and accomplishments,
a momentary cosmic accident that would never arise again if the tree of life could be replanted from seed
and regrown under similar conditions." Or, why don’t you?

Why can vampire bats be an inspiration to us all? (Clue, ask Richard Dawkins)

Why is disgust such a universal emotion?

“An increase why is an increase idle . . .” (why?) (Clue, ask Gertrude Stein)

“Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.” (Clue, ask Thoreau)

Why is a grown man like you playing with words? (Clue, Danny Abse suggests it is code for
"Do you really consider writing poetry important.”)

Why is the most influential nature writing in prose not poetry?

“When we think about our behaviour as individuals, "Why?" is a question almost always on the tips of our tongues.”
(Why?, Clue, ask Paul Ehrlich)

Why do we so often ask “Did that happen?” when we hear an interesting story?

Wonderful lyric poems already exist, why not diversify?
Why follow ‘official verse culture’ or its formalist highly theoretical opposition,
or the excitable spoken word performance?
Why not a poetry
of intellect not simply emotion, and of wonder, curiosity and information.

 

No FAA provided.