Poetry project focus on maritime themes
Sunday, 29 November 2009 13:09
Frangipani’s, the reef and crocodiles were some of the topics for short poems read by primary school students of Tagai State College as part of Sea Things.
Red Room Company Artistic Director Johanna Featherstone (fourth from left), Graeme Miles (far right), Spiritual Skipper Dave Jordan (red shirt) with the children who read poems.
Sea Things, a project through Red Room Company, aims to build on Australia’s maritime poetry tradition in a contemporary context, imagining the nation’s sea history through new work that can be shared nationally and internationally through print, audio, film and web forms.
A free community event was held at the Gab Titui Cultural Centre where the children read their poems including Tasmanian poet, Graeme Miles, who read his poem that was commissioned for this project.
The duffle bags, containing the final works, were flown to Sydney for a finale performance in Sydney on November 26.
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