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- Launch of the 2025 Pocket Poets Books Series
- Book Launch 2024 Thursday 4 April 2024 | 6.30 PM
- Haunting & Laughter – Professor Kit Kelen’s One Year Flying Islands Poetry Manuscript Workshop
- 2023 Flying Islands Books Launch 5 PM Saturday 4 February 2023
- Brian Purcell Estuary Exhibition Launch and Reading with Special Guests
- FLYING ISLANDS 2022 POETRY MANUSCRIPT PRIZE – Announcement of Winners
- Flying Islands Book Launch and Benefit Show Saturday 12 February 2022 at 2pm (AEDT)
- Save the Date Saturday 12 February 2022
- Maitland launch on 29 May 2021
- Flying Islands launch February 2021 photos(by Adam)
- Photos from Flying Islands Glebe Launch February 2021
- ONE SLEEP TO GO! Launch February 2021
- Flying Islands Sydney Booklaunch (of the new pocket poets) on Sunday 21st, February, 2021
- Category: Past Events
- Category: News
- Winner of the 2024 Manuscript Poetry Competition
- Kit wins Newcastle Poetry Prize
- Donations to Flying Islands Poetry Community Gift Fund are Tax Deductible
- 2024 Manuscript Competition – Longlisted Poets
- Flying Islands Now on eBay
- Vale Jill Eileen McKeowen
- Tax-deductible donations to support Flying Islands Poetry Community
- a big thank you !
- Nunggak Semi: A tribute book to Iman Budhi Santosa
- Category: Poems
- Andrew Burke’s ‘Shop Locally’
- David McAleavey’s ‘Detailed & calm’
- David McAleavey’s ‘Written next to a page of Emerson’
- Mathew Cheng’s ‘Tai O Coast’
- Jonas Zdanys’ Creating the World
- Chris Song’s ‘A Prayer’
- Odveig Klyve’s The Farmer’s Pear Tree
- Richard Tipping’s ‘Lord Muck’
- Cui Yuwei’s ‘Junkman’
- Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang’s ‘first night in Macao’
- Rob Schackne’s ‘Stari Most’
- Iris Fan Xing’s ‘Smog’
- Toby Fitch’s ‘Pinned Weeks’
- Kit Kelen’s ‘sometimes’
- Michael Crane’s ‘The great conspiracy’
- Clark Gormley’s ‘Hanging in the Hammock’
- Geoff Page’s ‘Dispatch Ramornie 1842’
- Steve Armstrog’s ‘Meeting with the Morning Walking’
- Matt Turner’s ‘Marriage’
- Ross Donlon’s ‘Lookout’
- KA Rees’ ‘Liber Abaci’
- Richard James Allen’s ‘The Book of Bad Dreams’
- Myron Lysenko’s ‘in the light’
- Vaughan Rapatahana’s ‘te taiao o Aotearoa’
- Jill McKeowen’s ‘Umina Imprinted’
- Sophia Wilson’s ‘Cutting Teeth’
- Angie Contini’s ‘ballad of weather’
- Kevin Smith’s ‘NIGHT HERON UNDER A CRESCENT MOON’
- Yannis Rentzos ‘THE HEAD OF ARTHUR RIMBAUD’
- D. G. Lloyd’s ‘Zhang Wei’
- Andrew Burke’s ‘Internal Cage’
- Mark Mahemof’s ‘Duct’
- Anastasia Radievska’s ‘First Wall – Aleph 1’
- Iman Budhi Santosa’s “Aaaaahhhhhh”
- Brian Purcell’s ‘2001’
- Sou Vai Keng’s ‘the past smells of something rotten’
- Mickael Crane’s ‘A 1974 Brisbane kind of day’
- Carl Walsh’s ‘First’
- Tug Dumbly’s 5 Short Tadpoems
- Nathanael O’Reilly’s ‘Symptoms of Homesickness’
- Huang Fan’s ‘flower maker’
- David Adès ‘From Which I Must Always Wake’
- Lizz Murphy’s ‘In the shop doorway’
- Angie Contini’s ‘fierce’
- Sophia Wilson’s ‘There’s a cabbage patch’
- D.G. Lloyd’s ‘Devil’s Hole’
- Greg McLaren’s ’17’
- Iris Fan Xing ‘amygdala or the bald head trail’
- Candy Tang Ting ‘unrequited love’
- Jane Skelton’s ‘Moniave, Scotland’
- Dan Disney’s ‘Departmental’
- Kit Kelen’s ‘silence’
- Yao Feng’s ‘fishing’
- Kerri Shying’s ‘regretsy’
- Xia Fang’s ‘Reflection on the Westminster Bridge Attack March 2017’
- Richard Tipping’s ‘Tehran Children’s Film Festival, 1977’
- Alex Skovron’s ‘Narcissus’
- Richard James Allen’s ‘Flickering Enlightenment’
- Andrew Burke’s ‘Autobiography’
- Rob Shackne’s ‘Stella Fugio’
- Sarah St Vincent Welch’s ‘apron’
- Beth Spencer’s ‘Flying over the Great Australian Bight’
- ‘Sad’ by Alan Jefferies
- from Harold Legaspi’s Chapter Ten in Letters in Language
- ‘Cliff Walk’ by Judy Johnson
- ‘Earth or sky’ by Michael Brennan
- ‘figurative speech’ by Matt Turner
- ‘Unresolved’ by Irina Frolova
- ‘hurricane’ by Jane Skelton
- ‘I’ve walked the same street’ by Anna Couani
- ‘Trafalgar Place’ by D.G. Lloyd
- ‘Word Flight’ by Sophia Wilson
- ‘Gun’ by D.G. Lloyd
- ‘I want’ by Angie Contini
- ‘Devil’s Hole’ by D.G. Lloyd
- Dimitra Harvey’s ‘Cicadas’
- Magdalena Ball’s ‘Transmission’
- ‘In Lithuania’ by Jean Kent
- “Night War” by Lou Smith from Riversalt
- ‘Broomstick Orchestra’ by Jane Skelton
- ‘The Light Will not Enter’ by Brian Purcell
- ‘Ideas for Novels 7’ by Anna Couani
- ‘If On a Winter’s Night a Joey’ by Morgan Bell
- ‘Good Bye’ by Richard James Allen
- ‘Parents are a Puzzle to be Handed On’ by Tug Dumbly
- ‘Unresolved’ by Irina Frolova
- broomstick orchestra by Jane Skelton
- Yao Feng #15
- Magdalena Ball – Precarious Inscruitable
- from Richard Tipping’s “Instant History”
- from “Riversalt” by Lou Smith
- from Dan Disney’s “Mannequins Guide to Utopias”
- from “What the river told me” by Jane Skelton
- from Geoff Page’s “Codicil”
- from Dominique Hecq and Béatrice Machet’s “Crypto”
- from Daniel Ionita’s “Short Bursts of Eternity”
- from Candy Tang Ting’s “Barefoot Running”
- from Greg McLaren’s “After Han Shan”
- from Iris Fan Xing’s “South of Words”
- from Tug Dumbly’s “Son Songs”
- from Patricia Sykes’ “Among the Gone of It”
- from Laurie Duggan’s “A Kite Hangs Above the Border”
- from Dominique Hecq and Béatrice Machet’s “Crypto”
- from Clark Gormley’s “Not What You Think”
- from Gillian Swain’s “My Skin its own sky”
- from Iman Budhi Santosa’s “The Faces of Java”
- from Rob Shackne’s “A Chance of Seasons”
- an elevensie from Kerri Shying’s “Knitting Mangrove Roots”
- Choir Solo
- from Judy Johnson’s “Exhibit”
- from Alex Skovron’s “Water Music” – Sunspots
- from Odveig Klyve’s “Let’s Take the Blue Sky by Storm”
- Three haiku from Myron Lysenko’s flying islands pocketbook “a ghost gum leans over”
- Common or Garden Poets #13 – Angela Costi inviting Denise O’Hagan
- Rae Desmond Jones’ ‘Decline and Fall’
- Common of Garden Poets #12 – Kerri Shying
- Common or Garden Poets #11 – Kit Kelen inviting Angela Costi
- Belief by Les Wicks
- Common or Garden Poets #10 – Jan Dean inviting Peter Wells
- Common or garden poets #9 Morgan Bell inviting Jan Dean
- Common or garden poets #8 Magdalena Ball inviting Morgan Bell
- Common or garden poets #7 Gillian Swain inviting Magdalena Ball
- common or garden poets #6 – Irina Frolova inviting Gillian Swain
- common or garden poets #5 – Jill McKeowen inviting Irina Frolova
- Common or Garden Poets #4 – Kathryn Fry inviting Jill McKeowen
- Common or Garden Poets #3 – Gail Hennessy inviting Kathryn Fry
- Newcastle Poetry Prize 2021 – five flying islanders shortlisted, two on the prize list
- Common or Garden Poets – Post #2 – Jean Kent inviting Gail Hennessy
- Common or Garden Poets – Post #1 – Kit Kelen inviting Jean Kent
- Oh Terrific
- The Unlearner
- Alloy, Usually Hardened response to “How Would You Like…”)
- How Would You Like…
- what shall we do nest year?
- Lockdown blog
- killing my commas softly (Sarah St Vincent Welch)
- Travel of Questions
- Not Me
- PRIDE COMES BEFORE A FALL (FLOWER OF KENT) by Béatrice Machet
- poem in the fridge (for Sarah)
- This your Life? Or not?
- Rob Schackne #8 – Insomnia
- Sarah St Vincent Welch magnetic fridge poem in New Zealand vernacular with husband’s mug shot a yoghurt smear and a baby photo
- one of these days we’ll be discovered
- Ask a Provocative Question- but no philosophy, dig?
- Rob Schackne #7 – Love Close
- Rob Schackne #6 – Home Before Daylight
- CALL IT -THING (L’appeler -chose)
- Newry State Forest, 31 March
- Rob Schackne #5 – The Work
- The hornbill observation station The Straits of Malacca
- Ecology Collage Series…
- these flying islands
- Poem written on the back of the boarding pass
- the Clive Palmer Monument
- Rob Schackne #4 – Sappho
- 4 bits that may or may not end up going somewhere
- good old summer
- standing still the trees: works on paper by Carol Archer
- myth of a-semism
- Rob Schackne #3 – The River
- Acrocorinth
- a door in the day – for Lou Smith
- Beyond (in response to Papa Osmubal’s mixed media work ‘Doors to Both Worlds’) – Lou Smith
- Rob Schackne #2 – Raindrop Look
- Spruce
- Rob Schackne #1 – The Sound of Wind on Mars
- the shadows: responding to Carol Archer’s aluminium etching ‘Sandstone Walk (after the fires)’
- found poem: in response to carol archer’s aluminum etching ‘sandstone walk (after the fires)’
- responding to John Bennett’s love poem
- Love Poem
- KING OF THE WORLD – ROI DU MONDE
- roadkill – responding to Sarah St Vincent Welch’s ‘the recent burials’
- the recent burials
- BE-FORE — AVANT
- destination Belanglo
- Suitcase Found
- in a time of lockdown
- Responding to Beatrice Machet’s ‘written on two collages’
- Beatrice Machet — Short poems written on two collages
- Magdalena’s response to “Is this the Azure Kingfisher”
- is this the Azure Kingfisher?
- cicada summer in the sunny south — Kit Kelen’s response to John Bennett’s ‘Acoustemology’
- Acoustemology
- Richard Tipping
- Gillian Swain
- Robert Edmonds
- Chris Mansell
- Beth Spencer – The Party of Life
- Xia Fang
- Lou Smith
- Dominique Hecq
- Steve Armstrong – What’s Left
- Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ātiawa)
- Greg McLaren
- S.K.Kelen
- Brian Purcell
- Richard James Allen
- Irina Frolova
- Sarah St Vincent Welch
- Chen Fei
- Harold Legaspi
- Nathan Curnow
- Iman Budhi Santosa
- Rob Schackne #3 – Winter Birds
- Rob Schackne #1 – The Condition of Things
- Rob Schackne #2 – Dábāo
- Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang
- Steven Schroeder
- Judy Johnson
- Chris Song “pomegranate” (trans. Lucas Klein) × Steven Schroeder “via crucis”
- KA Rees — Come the Bones
- Jan 1 2021
- ANDREW BURKE
- MATT TURNER
- Rob Schackne
- CLARK GORMLEY
- john bennett ~ example of work
- MYRON LYSENKO
- Kerri Shying – part two..
- Kerri Shying
- Béatrice MACHET
- Magdalena Ball
- HULLO TO THESE FLYING ISLANDS, from JEAN KENT
- Anna Couani
- Kit Kelen
- Category: Resources
- Category: Reviews
- Category: These Flying Islands Blog
- List of These Flying Islands Blog Posts
- Jane Skelton – My chapbook ‘Chimera’ of poetry and prose was published late last year (2020)
- Video premiere – December 19th 2021
- Common or Garden Poets
- FIVE FLYING ISLANDERS SHORTLISTED FOR THIS YEAR’S NEWCASTLE POETRY PRIZE!
- at the Flying Islands showcase/booklaunch at the Maitland IF Festival this last weekend
- actually I lived here once
- Thanks Kit from Dave Hill
- Nunggak Semi: A tribute book to Iman Budhi Santosa
- SUBMISSION CALL
- Paintings by Brian Purcell
- Kit Kelen’s ‘Whack & Blight’ Poetry Exhibition in Glebe (at the Shop Gallery)
- papa osmubal: introducing ‘doors to both worlds’, a recent work
- Carol Archer introducing a recent etching
- Responding to BE-FORE — AVANT by Beatrice Machet
- Failure to Launch
- Adam Aitken
- Today (Feb 2) is World Wetlands day
- Chan Lai Kuen
- Papa Osmubal
- Mark Tredinnick
- Toby Fitch
- Camellia Wei
- Candy Tang Ting
- Failure to Launch
- Ross Donlon
- Phil Hammial
- Huang Lihai
- Anne Walsh
- Melinda Louise Smith
- Merima Dizdarevic
- Lucy Dougan
- Iris Fan Xing
- Pam Brown
- Danny Gentile
- Patricia Sykes
- Andres Ajens
- Jan Dean
- Patrick Dubost
- James Walton
- Cui Yuwei
- Dael Allison
- Tug Dumbly
- Geoff Page
- Philip Salom
- Michael Brennan
- Gail Hennessy
- Jonas Zdanys
- Robert Edmonds
- Rae Desmond Jones
- Robert Wood
- Wang Mingyun
- Yao Feng
- Odveig Klyve
- Susan Fealy
- Dylan Jones
- Jane Skelton – New member of Flying Islands!
- Michael Crane
- Morgan Bell
- Carol Archer
- Alex Skovron
- David McAleavey
- George Watt
- Dan Disney
- FLYING ISLANDS SYDNEY BOOKLAUNCH – SUNDAY 21ST FEBRUARY 2021
- Xmas Day 2020
- john bennett
- Les Wicks
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- Instant History by Richard Tipping
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- A Pocket Diary by John Bennett
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- Decline and Fall by Rae Desmond Jones
- a pocket Kit by Christopher (Kit) Kelen
- Exhibit by Judy Johnson
- Fixing the Broken Nightingale by Richard James Allen
- High Wire Step by Magdalena Ball
- The Language of Light by Jean Kent
- Mannequin's Guide to Utopias by Dan Disney
- riversalt by Lou Smith
- My skin its own sky by Gillian Swain
- Belief by Les Wicks
- Atonement by Vaughan Rapatahana
- The Party of Life by Beth Spencer
- What the river told me by Jane Skelton
- The Leaving by Brian Purcell
- Short Bursts of Eternity by Daniel Ionita
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- Gravity Doesn't Always Work by Robert Edmonds
- Letters in Language by Harold Legaspi
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- Come the Bones by KA Rees
- Far and Wild by Irina Frolova
- a ghost gum leans over by Myron Lysenko
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