Image: Renee recording poems at RTR studio in June to be broadcast in October.
10 living Australian poets have been commissioned to write poems for and about a dead poet of their choosing.
These new poems will be broadcast nationally through community radio stations and presented at a live event in October 2015. Accompanying the new poems will be interviews with each poet, investigating how and why the poets they select have impacted on their writing lives. Each interview also looks into how death and its shadows feature in each poet’s work.
Following the broadcasts in October, all poems will be available to download here in text and audio. And in 2016 these new poems will form part of The Red Room Company’s anthology of death poems, written by contemporary Australian poets (see: http://redroomcompany.org/projects/rhyming-dead/).