Poetry at the Dan

Saturday! 2-5pm. Featuring yours truly on his one show only tour of melbyhole.

Melbourians: light your fire brands and sharpen your pitchforks! there's a-doings a-happening.

@ the Dan O'Connell Hotel in Carlton

$$$ Earn Money Contract Killing $$$

I am preparing myself for unemployment and answering want ads.

Having recently met another 33.33333 of "my" book,  Australian  poet PS Cottier, I sought out alternative means of making money.

a quick trip to the hardware store and i'm prepared for my new career.

A Shopping list:
large black plastic garbage bags - Check
petrol - Check
shovel - Check
string - Check
disposable gloves - Check
hair net (or shower cap) - Check (shower cap)
apron - Check
bleach - Check
builder's lime - Check
Duct tape for mouth and nostrils - check

Cotter Poem

The following  is lifted from the Greening Australia Capital Region newsletter (May 18)
My thanks again to Greening Australia, the Canberra Centenary (Canberra100), Hal Judge from Australian Poetry Limited and all the volunteers on the day who planted trees and the seeds of this poem.


Cotter Poem
    At the recent Centenary of Canberra planting, local poet Josh Inman gathered words and impressions from volunteers as they worked. With this content, he composed two poems; below is one of them.

      

Cotter. May 6, 2012             
     Joshua Inman
     
     
     Building Biodiversity from blisters and blackberries
     planting trees
                            returning fertility
                to the sterility of fire
     
     a community
                       Growing  from its ashes
     sections of society rallying beneath a banner
     relating
                   regenerating
     for future generations
     
     No longer just taking but giving back
     to the Bush Capital's backyard
     the 'kebab trees'
               clay soil
                       ground cover
                                     Hard yakka
     carbon sinking
         catchment cleaning
     
     restoring the burnt biota
       healing the hurt Cotter

Poems of mine to be published

Blemish Books, an independent press located here in Canberra have announced this years contributors  to Triptych Poets.

I am excited to say that I  have been selected as one of the contributors, which will be the first publication of my works.

Triptych Poets is an annual publication with a simple premise, three poets, one book. Triptych Poets hopes to highlight the contrasting and often complementary nature of contemporary poetry.
Submissions for a suite of 25 poems or less  closed in March this year. I submitted 25 poems collectively entitled "Lovers and Brothers", a nod to those who the poems are written about or for, or inspired by. After all, my poems are little pieces of me and we are all pieces of those we love.

Triptych Poets  is set for release in Sept 2012 

This announcement can be read here:
http://www.blemishbooks.com.au/news/index.shtml

Performing at Greening Australia

Sunday 6 May - Centenary of Canberra planting event
Proudly hosted by the Centenary of Canberra Project

Plant a seedling at the Centenary of Canberra and Greening Australia community tree planting day and learn from Yurung Dhaura trainees some of the traditional aboriginal uses for the trees, grasses and shrubs being planted as part of the Lower Cotter rehabilitation project.
Be entertained by Love Sick Caravan - Canberra’s newest dixie-land band who will bring a touch of yesteryear to the Cotter. In addition, spoken word artist and poet Josh Inman, from Australia Poetry Limited, has accepted the challenge to perform a new work created on the day by seeking words from planters about the Lower Cotter region.

When?
Sunday 6 May, 9.30am – 12.30pm. Followed by a BBQ.
What to expect?
Indigenous knowledge sharing, music, poets, a BBQ, a few blackberry canes and a portaloo.
Please bring a hat, sunscreen, long sleeves, long pants, gardening gloves,
sturdy boots, mattock (if you have one) and a water bottle.
Catch the bus?
RSVP Essential! The bus departs the City West bus terminal on Marcus Clarke
St (between University Ave and Allsop St) at 8.30am, and will then pick up
at 9am from the Stromlo Forest Park cycling area car park off Uriarra Rd.
The bus will return to Stromlo, then Civic by 2:30pm.
Driving?
Drive along Uriarra Rd to Uriarra Crossing, turn left after the Crossing and
continue on Uriarra road for 7km. Turn left into Bullock Paddock Road. Look
out for the Greening Australia signs from Uriarra Crossing.
RSVP Essential:
Please state if you will be catching the bus or not.
Phone: 6253 3035. Email: admin@act.greeningaustralia.org.au
You  don’t  need  any experience to attend a Greening Australia event,
instructions and tools are provided on site.
If you have any questions, please contact us on admin@act.greeningaustralia.org.au or 6253 3035
Check out the volunteer page here for other volunteering opportunities.

Selection Criteria

So it acomes to a time where I have to make an effort  to retain some form of employment. The problem is i find myself bored with official writing that just so biege.  heres my latest selection criterion:

Working with People - Understanding others, adapting to others, rewarding others, listening, consulting, supporting, caring.

I work with people. I am a People Person, proven by the crowd of people who posed for this picture

I have extensive experience working within a team environment throughout my career.  As a warm and open person, I possess an understanding of others. This empathy is the glue that binds the team, or the egg that binds the rissole. It is the power of this affinity that I wield that allows me to be the greatest team member ever. In my self appointed role as morale team captain I command the respect of my minions by adapting to some, rewarding others and listening to all. A team with harmony sings in simpatico. Some lesser team members say im condescending (that means I speak down to people), but it’s not true, I am just greater than they could ever hope to achieve. And this is how I relate to people, I give them my time, and time is money, so it’s like a charity. And that’s what I am, friend charity.  Building a rapport is different to building a house, but both have glue. I am that glue.

Otherwise, i once busked with a sign that read
Too lazy to work or sing, please give generously

so i always have my backup career.

An Autumn Poemn

Autumn

all the girls,
          fuck,
Even the trees
discard their clothes
and show poets
their bushes.