Blog: Pool saw Sea Things by the sea shore
Welcome all sea creatures, pirates, poets, and sea lovers. Sea Things wants your poetry!
Sea Things is a national literary project that celebrates Australia's longstanding obsession with the ocean. Poetry will sail the high seas as part of a two month saga to encourage new seaworthy verse. And Sea Things wants your contributions!
Johanna Featherstone from the Red Room Company, creators of the project, says that 'Sea Things invites intrigue and adventure, danger and politics. Not just the sea itself but also the coastline, harbours and beaches, what happens above and below the surface of the sea. Australia as an island-continent speaks to rhythm, sound, image and memory. We will collect material from you, the community, and by the time we disembark on Thursday Island our duffle bags will be bursting with voices, songs, sounds and secrets that all of you have shared with us for this unique project.'
Drawing on Australia's long history of maritime poetry, Sea Things is imagining the nation’s sea history through new work that can be shared nationally and internationally through print, audio, film and web forms.
Sea Things' duffle bags of poems are travelling on two routes, north from Hobart and Fremantle, with stopovers in Devonport, Melbourne, Broome, Darwin, Port Kembla, Brisbane and Cairns. These two lots of poetic "cargo" will be written observations and illustrations from the captains, passengers and land-based supporters such as yourselves, all travelling alongside four newly commissioned poems. Information about the stopover events can be found at the Red Room site.
The final port of call will be Thursday Island in Torres Strait. The duffle bags containing the final works will then be flown to Sydney for a public performance. You here at Pool are all invited! Make sure you let the Pool Team know if you're heading to the event as we'd love to meet you there.
So if you have something to say about the sea, get writing (or videoing, drawing, photographing)! Upload your work to Pool and be part of this epic voyage.
Image: Vilhelm Sjostrom
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