Governance - Flying Islands Pocket Poets

The Flying Islands Poetry Community Inc. (“Flying Islands”) is an incorporated association under the New South Wales Associations Incorporation Act 2009. It was incorporated on 28 April 2021 at which time it took over the Flying Islands Pocket Poetry project which had been operating as an informal association since 2010.

Flying Islands is also a registered charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC). The ABN for Flying is Islands 57 806 701 059.

Within the Flying Islands structure, there is a tax-deductible Gift Fund. The Gift Fund is administered separately within Flying Islands. The Gift Fund is an endorsed Deductible Gift Recipient by the Australian Taxation Office. To donate or find out more go to the Tax Deductible Gift Fund.

Flying Islands is administered by a committee which is elected at the annual general meeting of Flying Islands however participation by the Flying Islands community is encouraged at all levels and in a range of projects.

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Natalie Cooke’s ‘Bird Song’

from 100 Poets

Last year I began a list of birds at my window
recording their whims and peregrinations, and my own
imperfect knowledge (and lack of application).
Currawong, it starts boldly, cuckoo-shrike, wattlebird
before some sort of thornbills (?) – all brown…
Perhaps they’ll return.

I dug out a field guide, dived into descriptors,
compared fuscous and rufous, ratite and struthious,
then sounded out dihedral, superloral, nidifugous.

I composed a silent chorus of plaintive warble,
falling reels and froglike croaks
with a counterpoint of whip-crack
thin tinkling, scolding notes.

Paper’s a pied piper; I twitched adjectives
for hours, staked out nouns, pished verbs,
deaf to my surroundings, tail-up in words.

Then this evening three currawongs—
all black against the reddening dusk—
called a question through the glass
and I looked up and
heard.