Poetry

featured poetry performances

Ambient Loopscape. Poetry / improvised music / real-time video generation with Jutta Pryor, Masonik (Baziz Psanoudakis and Mark Martin), and Eiichi Tosaki, The Loop Project Space & Bar (Melbourne CBD, July, 2019).

Ambient Brainstorm. Poetry / improvised music / real-time video generation with Jutta Pryor, Masonik (Baziz Psanoudakis and Mark Martin), and Eiichi Tosaki (Bundoora, July, 2019).

Paroxysm Press – The Showcase Series. Video poem and live performance. Adelaide Fringe Festival, Broadcast Bar, Adelaide, February, 2019.

Surf’s Up! ART meets SURF at Christies!  Poetry feature with musicians Nick West and Khristian Mizzi. Arty Records HQ, Christies Beach, SA, February, 2019.

Back at the Red Rhino Room. Poetry feature with musicians Fergus Maximus and Khristian Mizzi. Red Rhino Room, Hilton, SA, February, 2019.

The Poetry of Science. Panel and performance. Quantum Words. Writing NSW, Callan Park, Sydney, November, 2018.

Southern-Land Poets Chapbook Series 6 Launch. Poetry. Garron Publishing, Halifax Cafe, Adelaide, October, 2018.

Narratives of Brain and Body. Workshop and performance. Vital Signs: The Healing Power of Story, Queensland Poetry Festival, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Fortitude Valley, Queensland, August, 2018.

The Hearth: “The Sea”. Poetry and panel. The Jade, Adelaide, June, 2018.… Click here for more.

popular articles & reviews

“Jabbed”: Review of On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss, Text Publishing. Australian Book Review, 372: 60 (2015).

“Constant Companion”: Review of Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir by Robert Kenny, UWA Publishing. Australian Book Review, 357: 13-14 (2013).

“Chewing Gum Stops Tears” in 99 and Counting Medical Myths Debunked, eds Sykes H, Jackson-Webb F, 29-30, Future Leaders, originally in The Conversation (2013).

“Poetry and Place: Vu d’Australie (2)” in Recours au Poème (France, 2013).

“A Tourist’s Guide to Australian Poetry” in Recours au Poème (France, 2012).

“Elephant Art”: Review of Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science and Evolution by David Rothenberg, Bloomsbury Press. Australian Book Review, 339: 62-63 (2012).

“Cyclists beware! Pressure from seats can do lasting damage.” The Conversation 1st August, 2012.

“More than the sum of our parts: why dismemberment of the dead irks.” The Conversation 24th April, 2012.

“Hemispheric Wars”: Review of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Modern World by Iain McGilchrist, Yale University Press. Australian Book Review, 323: 59-60 (2010).

“The Latest Laureate: Elizabeth Blackburn’s Collegial Rise”: Review of Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres by Catherine Brady and Remarkable Biologists: From Ray to Hamilton… Click here for more.

published poetry

Sensurious / Sensoriales, with Judy Morris, in Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow II / Cuardo a Cuadros: Tus Ojos Siguen II, curated and edited by Sarah Tremlett (Poem Film Editions, Liberated Words, Bath, UK, 2024).

RISE – inaudibly, repeatedly, with Pascalle Burton, in Author Unknown, Red Room Poetry (2024).

Ferrovores – the iron eaters in Antennae – the journal of nature in visual culture 59: microbial ecologies (December, 2022).

The Extreme Politics of Adaptive Endosymbiosis  with video in Sydney Review of Books (November, 2021).

Ferrovores – Homo ferrovorus (incertae sedis) with video in Becoming Feral (Glasgow, 2021).

Rescue (animated GIF visual poem) in otoliths 63 (2021).

Burial in Burrow: Non-human Companions (September, 2021).

In Which Confocal Scanning Laser Microscopy is Utilised to Illustrate the Organisation of Nerve Fibres Mediating Painful Sensations… in Rabbit 31: Science (2020).

Coming Through in Poetry Film Live with audio (2020).

Firefront and Questions of Impropriety re-published in From The Ashes: A poetry collection in support of the 2019-2020 Australian Bushfire relief effort. (ed CS Hughes, Maximum Felix Media, 2020).

after-image in e•ratio 29 (2020) with video version here.

The Exclusion Principle in e•ratio 29 (2020) with video version here.

preface … Click here for more.

not absolute: audio & video

Thoracic 2 includes some of the text and sound installation from the exhibition. The sounds were recorded by Catherine Truman in her workshop and in Ian’s laboratory.

 

Metal (you’ll be in trouble) is the audio from a section of one of the installation videos. The sounds include comments recorded accidentally during an anatomy class.

 

Ian made three video installations collectively called with your eyes closed for the exhibition. Here are some excerpts from them.

To see all Ian’s videos, click on the vimeo button.

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‘Floribunda’

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Floribunda was an exhibition of drawings by Judy Morris and poems by Ian Gibbins at the Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf, in 2015. As part of the exhibition, we produced a beautiful book containing full-colour reproductions of Judy’s drawings along with the complete sequence of poems. Find out more about the project here.

polymag – floribunda mix

This music was composed as an installation to accompany Floribunda, an exhibition of drawings by Judy Morris and poems by Ian Gibbins at the Hahndorf Academy, 2015. Listen to the complete sequence via Bandcamp:

urban biology – audiodraft

This album features some poems from urban biology, as well as dirt track, which was featured on ABC Radio National’s poetica program; and a couple of instrumentals.

Listen to it via Bandcamp:

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