John Bennett
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Art
Looking at Art, Gerhard Richter, Cage series, 2006, Tate Modern A homage to John Cage who declared “I have nothing…
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Poetry as Weed
This was an early stab at wondering how poetry can be didactic, not in the moral sense but the informational.…
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An ecopoetic
I suggest that writing with an ecological intent and teaching such writing should begin with personal experience.
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Organisation, Moscow
. . . stamp of columns fresh from the Caucasus yelling guttural noise from the Red Army songbook, a terrible…
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Poems
Driving to the Island (Toraigh Island)
Tory or Toreigh island is off the north coast of Donegal
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Sainsbury’s Belgian Fairtrade Milk Chocolate
A visit to friends living in bush outside Bellingen
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Real Love – extract
An extract - from the 2010 Newcastle Poetry prize anthology. The poem is about death but I'd term it as…
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Poems
Sunday afternoon (with translation notes)
A poem about the Fukushima disaster - with notes for translators
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Photography