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vandiemenspeak
Member since June 5, 2013
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The tree compass
Days grow long now,
Autumn too warm
Even at lunchtime.
Bare poplars, an earth dial
Throw time across the path
I steep the thoughts inside
To silence.
Deep and lost, a moment
Of shadow, coolness
Confessions to you the slowing
Day claimed.
vandiemenspeak’s timeline
- April 2026
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25 SatReceived a critique
on The tree compass from @crypticbard
"are roadtrip in Tassie from Launceston to Sheffield, Dove lake, Bichino, Richmond, Port Arthur, and finally Hobart where we spent much time walking among the tall primeval trees. There is indeed that compassy feeling wh…" - May 2025
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28 WedReceived a critique
on The tree compass from @Geezer
"read this one, I had the feeling that I might compare it to an Australian Abo, term, "Go Walk-about" [maybe a mental version]. Tune in, drop out or some such as anyone might call it. Yoga, meditation, take a mental brea…" -
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- January 2025
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02 ThuReceived a critique
on After the quartet from @Lavender
"I like the build up in this. A crescendo, not only in the actual music, which is well imagined here, but also in you. The feeling of joy and adoration is so nicely described. The title is perfect, leaving us to understa…" -
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- June 2023
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05 MonAnniversary
10 years of membership
- June 2018
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05 TueAnniversary
5 years of membership
- June 2017
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30 FriPosting milestone
100 poems posted
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15 ThuHighest posting month
June 2017 — 11 poems
- March 2017
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23 Thu
- June 2014
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05 ThuAnniversary
One year of membership
- October 2013
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19 SatFirst critique offered
on "WALLS" by @scribbler
- July 2013
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05 FriFirst publication
Rain reveals all
- June 2013
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05 WedJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 30 days later.
About Me
About me
One of the most influential and innovative writers of the immutably small town of Newark on Trent, Chris Hall is the author of "A shorter history of longing" (2014) and "A rook wind" (2016), Published by Ginninderra Press in Australia (he didn't even pay them to do this). His forthcoming collection of poetry, " Clown in a dark wood" should be available in Picarro poets press some time later in 2017.
"Ideas, like longing, have a perishable quality, as does all writing" - Anonymous.
Location: Tasmania, AUS
Favorite Poets
Glen Richards
Thomas Hardy
Phillip Larkin
Robert Frost
William Carlos Williams
Carol Ann Duffy
Ani DiFranco
Seamus Heaney
Emily Dickinson
T. S. Elliot
Recent Work
Icarus
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Travellers
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Cough the news
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Waiting
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Fledgling flight.
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On tide slowing time.
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The Iron Landlady
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The Web.
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Slant rain on a Wednesday
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An ending.
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Workshops
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| Poets first poems | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2017-06-23 | Concluded |
| IMAGERY IN POETRY( ready to start?) | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2017-06-24 | Concluded |
| Effective Contemporary Pastoral poetry [Let's start] | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2015-02-08 | Concluded |