Letter.Box.Stamp.Collect. installation for Queensland Poetry Festival
This year I curated an installation for the Queensland Poetry Festival called Letter.Box.Stamp.Collect. This project incorporated the 19th century orienteering hobby of Letterboxing, and circular poetry. Five former QPF poets- in-residence were invited to write a poem that would each be developed into a circular stamp. These stamps were placed in letterboxes located around the QPF site at the Judith Wright Centre over the duration of the festival. Festival goers could take an imprint of the poem and also leave a circular poem of their own response in the letterbox.
The Letter.Box.Stamp.Collect. poems:
- Flourish by Jacqueline Turner
- sol lewitt by Emily XYZ
- Ligature in G by angela rawlings
- River by Jacob Polley
- mining, lumbering, trading: treaty 8 by Shane Rhodes
angela rawlings’ poem ‘Ligature in G’ (photo: Sachiko Murakami)
The invitation to contribute responses to the project was extended digitally via the blog and contributors sent in a range of text, sound and visual responses to either the concept of letterboxing, circular poetry, or both.
The Contributors:
- Sally Browne
- Chris Lynch
- Trudie Murrell
- Andrew Galan
- Eleanor Jackson
- Sandra Selig
- Alinta Krauth
- Kellie O’Dempsey
- Heinz Riegler
- Leighton Craig
- Eddy Burger
- Jonathan Hadwen
- Nathan Shepherdson
- Russ Talbot
- Patricia Reid
- Mel Dixon
- Mitchell Welch
- Ynes Sanz
- Jennifer Liston
- Max Ryan
- Julie Lynch
- Andrew Phillips
- Mark William Jackson
- Tessa Leon
- Tiggy Johnson
- John Wainwright
- Cindy Keong
- Graham Nunn
- Matt Hetherington
- Nathan Curnow
- Anna Jacobson
Many thanks to QPF Festival Director Sarah Gory for supporting the project, to Jacqueline, Emily, angela, Jacob and Shane for sharing your unique voices, and to all who sent in responses.