Monday, 11 October 2021

Common or Garden Poets



An Introduction to 

Common or Garden Poets


Common or Garden Poets is an open-ended and ongoing Flying Islands Poetry Community initiative. It’s a conversation in poetry, of any kind; poetry, in some way, concerning the garden.

It’s a very simple project. Here’s how it works.

We come into this garden of letters one at a time. That means one poet invites a next by way of dedicated words. I'll invite Jean Kent, to kick things off, in a post to follow this one.

Once you have been invited to join the common or garden poets you may contribute as often or as rarely as you like. The important thing is to pass the invitation on to one more poet so that the garden grows with new voices.

We’ll post these draft poems here on the THESE FLYING ISLANDS blog and also on fb, and possibly elsewhere. There’s no telling how this garden may grow.  

 

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Oh Terrific

So now they tell me business is business, sometimes up sometimes down that's the breaks, it's just how it crumbles so many sayings, turnoff tropes to suppress the outrage to discount further cheap antics, the raw peeling of layer under layer of ripoff, of ruin: "Not to worry she's dancing in heaven" we look down at this morning's leftovers while upstairs, hammers clunk clumsily on a project going 7 years, maybe 9. Now they tell me.

Monday, 13 September 2021

FIVE FLYING ISLANDERS SHORTLISTED FOR THIS YEAR'S NEWCASTLE POETRY PRIZE!

 



2021 Newcastle Poetry Prize

$25,000 Prize Pool

and the opportunity to be published in the 2021 anthology

Here is the list of poets (in alpha order) to be published in the 2021 anthology.
Prizes will be announced in October. 

Claire

Albrecht

I have become psychologically linked to a humpback whale

 

NSW

Natalia Figueroa

Barrosa

Roadtrip

 

NSW

Lachlan

Brown

Any Saturday, 2021: Running Westward

 

NSW

Gayelene

Carbis

After ‘Still Life with Babette’s Jug #2’

 

VIC

Eileen

Chong

Poem for My Ancestors

 

NSW

Amy

Crutchfield

Yew

 

VIC

Josie/Jocelyn

Deane

Haruspex

 

VIC

Shastra

Deo

SORRY

 

QLD

SJ

Finn

Nefertiti’s Missing Left Eye

 

VIC

Jane

Frank

The Saddest Things Are The Most Beautiful

 

QLD

Marcelle

Freiman

The Dam

 

NSW

Dan

Hogan

Unbelievable Meme Afterlife

 

NSW

Gregory

Horne

Predictions

 

NSW

Duncan

Hose

The Search For The Darling Pea

 

TAS

Christopher (Kit)

Kelen

Ataraxia

 

NSW

John

Kinsella

A Testament To The Problem Of Being ‘Fascinated’ (By ‘Things’) At A Time Of ‘Cuts’

 

WA

Lesley

Lebkowicz

Czernowicz: The Poets

 

ACT

David

Lumsden

Dropping In

 

VIC

Greg

McLaren

Autumn Medications

 

NSW

Rachael

Mead

It Takes a Mountain to Raise a Cheese

 

SA

Audrey

Molloy

The Earwig

 

NSW

Gemma

Parker

The Drunk Lady On The Bus Has Just Fallen On Her Face

 

SA

Trisha

Pender

Iphigenia In Triptych

 

NSW

Nicole

Sellers

Fox Wake

 

NSW

Jane

Skelton

the lake inside

 

NSW

Kevin

Smith

Form Guide To The South Western Slopes Of The Great Divide

 

QLD

Beth

Spencer

Such Is Life In A Small Town

 

NSW

Connor

Weightman

Perpetual Cataclysm Machine

 

Vic

Caroline

Williamson

January

 

VIC

Grace

Yee

Alluvial Mining

 

VIC