Two visual poems in “otoliths 44”
Now published in otoliths 44, two visual poems, one based on some strange (former) neighbours; the other an animated GIF, that evolved from some Adelaide Festival of Ideas admin … Click here to read them.
Poetry
WILLIAM DAMPIER LOSES BEARINGS, HEADS EAST, RENEGOTIATES ABEL TASMAN, DRAWS A BLANK in “Found Poetry Review”
In 1642, Dutchman, Abel Tasman (1603 – 1659), was the first European to reach what the Maori call Aotearoa, the islands that became known as New Zealand. On the 4th January, 1688, English buccaneer, William Dampier (1651 – 1715) set foot on the north-west coast of Australia, then known as New Holland. His expedition report, A New Voyage Round the World (1697), was very popular. Amongst other things, it provided more “evidence” for the supposed lowly status of the Indigenous inhabitants of the New World. On a subsequent journey, he intended to explore the east coast of New Holland, but never made it.
This piece is built from acrostic and reverse acrostics of Aotearoa / aoraetoA, using only words beginning or ending, respectively, with the appropriate letter, selected from each of the 16 paragraphs in Dampier’s 1697 text describing his time in New Holland. The word order in each section follows that of the original text. Click here to read it.
glimpse in e•ratio
My poem glimpse about the New Horizons spacecraft reaching Pluto has been published in e•ratio. Click here to read it.
Sensurious video-poem short-listed for Red Room Co New Shoots Prize
Created by The Red Room Company, New Shoots, is a poetic partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Sydney Olympic Park and Bundanon Trust. The project celebrates and cultivates poems inspired by plants and place. Sensurious, my video-poem featuring drawings by Judy Morris, was short-listed for the New Shoots Poetry prize, 2016. Click here to download the PDF of New Shoots Anthology: Poems Inspired by Plants. The text for Sensurious is on p. 32.
sensurious from Ian Gibbins on Vimeo.
Situs inversus and catclaws selected for showing at 5th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens
My video poems situs inversus viscerum totalis, originally developed for the Body of Evidence exhibition at the Adelaide Conventional Centre, and catclaws were shown at the 5th International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece, 10th December, 2016. Click on the images below to see the videos.
video art / poetry videos
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The Life We Live Is Not Life Itself (2021, dur: 8:45) Poetry video, with Tasos Sagris (poetry / spoken word) and WhoDoes (music) …
• official selection, and Delluc Avant-Garde Winner, Fotogenia Film Festival 2021, vol. 3 (Mexico City, November, 2021);
• official selection and overall winner, Poetry In Motion 2023 (Colorado, USA, November, 2023);
• official selection and Jury Award for Harmony Between Image, Poem and Music, 7° Festival Internacional Signes da Noite – Urbino (21st International Festival Signs of the Night – Italy) (Urbino, Italy, November, 2023);
• official selection and Winner SIGNS Award, 8. Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht (Signes de Nuit) / Berlin (Berlin, November, 2023);
• finalist, International Video Poetry Award, screened at Bologna in Lettere 10th – BABEL: stati di alterazione, Bologna In Lettere 2022 (Italy, March / May – June 2022);
• curated selection, “Fotogenia – A Showcase” at REELPoetry 2025 (Houston, TX, April, 2025);
• curated selection, International Poetry Festival – Kardamyli – Mani (Kardamyli, Greece, September, 2024);
• official selection, MAPPING at MECA Mediterráneo Centro Artístico (Almeria, Spain, September – October, … Click here for more.
Last Shave in Cordite EXPLODE
the mirror obscured / can you look behind … are they Originals? Bios? NewGenVirts ? PursuitIntrons? only the phone numbers that matter… a different kind of machine code…