stones blue, tan and rust
burn on the ironstone plain
weed crisped black.
Friday favourites from the long white cloud – Aotearoa* poetry
Australia was recently visited by New Zealand’s new Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. At the end of her visit some wag commented that ‘Australia has a smart, progressive Prime Minister with a firm vision of the future; unfortunately, she’s returning to New Zealand later this week.’
Which leads me to the February edition of Poetry Magazine featuring new New Zealand poetry. Continue reading
Monthly Poetry Contest Winners! — Vita Brevis
The results are in! We had fantastic (and wonderfully novel) submissions this time around. It was a tough choice, but here are the winners of our monthly poetry competition. *On the Next Competition: As of right now, we can’t afford to host competition next month–donations have slowed down over past few weeks. But don’t worry, we’ll get one […]
So pleased to be in such good company. Thanks Vita Brevis – Visit and enjoy – Monthly Poetry Contest Winners! — Vita Brevis
Cine-mania, Lisa Reihana
Campbelltown Arts Centre
12 January to 29 March 2018.
10 to 4pm daily, Free.
Cine-mania is a survey of thirty years of Maori video and photographic artist Lisa Reihana’s work. Its centrepiece is In pursuit of Venus [infected], a 64 minute super-wide screen film about the three Pacific voyages of English navigator and explorer James Cook’s (1768 to 1779). Continue reading
The Greenland shark
The old mandarin’s in fruit again. Green nuggets mostly but some are already turning.
The girl is pegging towels into the pull and slap of the Southerly. The wind has dried her hair into a russet frizz. ‘Look at me,’ she says turning her head from side to side, laughing. Continue reading
The early swimmer
Jesus on the water –
way older now,
long cords, stark ribs,
speedos snagged on the horns of his hips
………………………… – being knocked about. Continue reading
Friday favourites: 23 Feb 18
A few favourites on this Friday for your poetical enjoyment: Continue reading
Grey morning beach math haibun
Blond sand blows low and hard over ankles, driftwood and half-buried trash. These feathers, eddies and vortices have been perfectly modelled in our wind tunnels and supercomputers. Continue reading
The umbrella
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…like people living in a country whose language they know so little that with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual.
Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence.
……………………..afternoon.
the wife is in the garden.
he has her umbrella. Continue reading
Poetry and consumption
My poem – Bucolic, MM Beach has been published in the latest edition of Plumwood Mountain Journal.
…with 31 poems guest edited by Michael Farrell on the theme ‘Poetry and Consumption’, a bumper set of 20 book reviews, an essay on Amitav Ghosh by Jennifer Mackenzie and a wonderful photo essay on twilight by Jon Bennett, do yourself a favour and check it out here…
Image: c/- NASA on the Commons: Albert Siepert Points Out Highlights of Apollo 10 Liftoff to Belgium King and Queen, May 1969. And (for no particular reason) here’s Bertrand Belin, (so Frenchy, so chic), with un deluge.
Peter Frankis writes 