So I've got this new book ...
Who Comes Calling?
(published by WAPP)
It's got all the old favourites like "Bumboat Cruise on the Singapore River", "Searching for Words", and (of course), "Home".
It's also got plenty of the new favourites like "Still Searching", "Catching the L-Words", and "In Memory of Katrina Miles".
Order my book here
Don't like print? Audio version on Bandcamp here
On Who Comes Calling?
There are so many gifts here:
History experienced as history lived in a body; kindness and the difficulty of kindness; tender and patient reflection in the presence of pain. In the face of bullet holes. This is a work of generational, locational and situational instrospection that yields, at its own life-fruiting pace, a gleaning—of courageous clear-seeing; of compassion addressed to contradiction and contention; of empathy.
I am thankful it came calling.
Alvin Pang
This is where I try things out:
This is where I keep things:
This is where I celebrate:
This is where I mourn:
tiny ideas, proto-poems, a single imperfect line.
books I like, objects that provoke questions,
images that tell stories.
publications and projects.
loss and what-didn’t-work-out.
Step in through the poetry portal
After a challenging week, this #artistdate with my writing students at #agwa ...
we had so much fun drawing #exquisitecorpses and playing with blocks.
Interactive exhibition by Perth artist @bruno_booth_ Thanks for leading us, Bruno 🌟
Thanks @candlestickpress for this shout-out on your socials and your blog!
Go here to listen to me read two poems out loud:
https://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/blog/one-wine-poem-and-one-train-poem/?fbclid=IwAR3V1FfnZ5YmGwAW0wtjJ1rC4Ft6TsguECNPM8UOAJSpcEd_lNPITki_AHw
Love what you do to keep #poetry alive!
#chuffed #poetrypamphlet #winepoem
My sonnet made the cut for The Candlestick Press Poetry Comp "A Walk at Christmas"!!!
Thanks @poetofjazz and @alvinpang for the feedback that pushed this poem past mediocrity. Re-writing makes the best writing.
Thanks also @candlestickpress for this opportunity - can`t wait to see this Poetry Pamphlet in print! ❤️
Into The Wetlands! Really pleased to be part of this community-sourced anthology along with SO many other poets I respect!
Thanks for bringing us together @soulreserve, @thewetlandscentre and @nandichinnapoetry ♥️
The best bit? Reading poems by two of my kids! Love your work, Em and Dave!
Lovely hanging out with Luisa Mitchell @luisayarns and Judith Huang @judtheobscure at the Westerly launch last Thursday!
So much to read and enjoy issue in 68.1 ... including work by Tiffany Ko, Alan Fyfe, Luisa Mitchell, Julie Watts, and many others ♥️
#literary #wawriters #poets #westerlymag
