Well, I came home to a copy of UQP’s The Best Australian Poetry 2009 tonight, featuring poems from some of my Australian poetic heroes - Geoff Goodfellow, Robert Adamson & Thomas Shapcott – so it is a nice feeling to have 5 of my haiku included alongside these gentlemen and about 30 or so other fine poets.
These haiku, written during my residency at the Ekka, have been displayed as part of Museum of Brisbane’s ‘Ten Days in August’ exhibition as well as at the Ekka, so they have been really good to me.
I’m off to crawl into the pages and soak it all up… here’s one of the haiku published in the sequence.
first date
too scared to kiss
on the ghost train
Congratulations! What fabulous company to be in and well deserved too.
Yes, congratulations indeed!
Finally! That is awesome.
Congratulations Graham.
That’s fantastic – I will get a copy – you’ll have to pop open the champers (I will have a virtual glass with you – cheers Graham).
So well-deserved! Congratulations Graham!
A.Joy
G.Nunn! the best, the best
Thank you all so much. Big love to all!
nice one, big guy! gives a little impetus to keep going on, no? (not that YOU need that, mr motivated.) and haiku, too! doubleplus good.
another first date –
quoting graham nunn
gets me nowhere
thanks matto… sorry I haven’t been more help in the love department… that haiku is superb!
ah graham, you love anything with your name in it!
that’s not quite true matto… i often wish they sent my bills to someone else.
yes, fair enough.
and one day, all our names REALLY come up. what’s YOUR epitaph to read sir? :-+
my epitaph… well always thought my death ku would be: crawling mist/the empty boat pulls/ at its moorings
but hopefully it is a long way off brother
what about: he lived / he died / lets burn his clothes
love it!