| Ireland 2000
The idea of the Poetry Project |
In
2000 I'm went to Ireland to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre to work on some
poetry to do with landscape and memory. For six weeks in June and
July I lived
and worked at the Centre, concentrating on a poetry project.
I lived beside a lake for the first time ever and each day I would check the lake's edge, the size of the waves, the smoothness of the water, where the debris had collected, whether there were any fishermen around, where the swans were. I think the lake will feature in future poems. I also met some wonderful people from Ireland and elsewhere: poets, childrens' writers, sculptors, photographers, visual artists, screenwriters and lots more. It was a very stimulating time. At the end of the time I'd finished a group of poems centred around landscape and memory that I hope will be a core part of my next collection.
This project has been assisted by the Australia Council for the Arts and I am grateful for their support.
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