26 September 2013
Last
night at Browns Mart in the Darwin CBD ‘Off the Page’ resumed under the
guiding eye of Panos Couros director of
the Northern Territory Writers Centre and ably assisted by NTWC manager, Kaye
Hall.
An
appreciative crowd was treated to some of the Darwin’s literary and poetic talent. The guest line-up included :
Levin Diatschenko http://www.blackriderpress.com/Diatschenko.html
Digonata
Bordoloi
http://www.amazon.com/Slow-ebook/dp/B00DZEQX40
Ben Quinn extraordinary
young musician,songwriter who is on the way to achieving his dream of making a living from music.
Kamarra
Bell-Wykes
http://www.ubudwritersfestival.com/writers/kamarra-bell-wykes/
Coral Carter: Read from her book 'Descended from Thieves'
Blood Love
I
met my cousin
on
Wilson Street
at
16 he dived
into
a rock
did
time in a chair
now
walks with a stick
feet
twisted out
like
Charlie Chaplin
but
no one is laughing
we
met last
at
uncles wake
the
ghost of our grandmother
cursed
as she poured the whisky
down
the drain
the
girl cousins
sang
sad movies in their underwear
our
cousin broke down said we didn’t love him
we
said
blood
love
is
deep and red
it
stains
that
was before our other cousin wrestled him to the ground
in
front of 36 Varden Street
to
take his keys
not
that he had a drivers licence any way
we
rang a taxi and sent him home
he
doesn’t drink too much now
he
has given the women away
they
drove him to it
happier
alone
his
daughter up north
his
sister round three with cancer
we
remembered his father
who
won the lottery
drank
12 longnecks a night
until
his brain dissolved
I
met my cousin on Wilson Street
he
wears the Aboriginal colours on his wrist
a
twenty year old hat
black
jeans skinny legs
not
the kind of bloke
some
would want to meet
but
blood
love
is
deep and red
it
stains.
'Descended From Thieves '
Coral
Carter
Mulla Mulla Press
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