transparent blues, the trance of celestial parades …
Eden, Lion, where beginnings grow easily, pleasing to the eye as to the general
public, rest in these plants, the commonly grown cactus … go west vagrant Tas wrote:
I can tell from here … what the inhabitants of Venus are like: they resemble the Moors,
burned by the sun, full of wit and fire, always in love, writing verse, fond of music …
… and Deimos glows from afar (Pro webcam activated: Mars image: Phobos and
Deimos, November 3)
Sam Sampson’s first book of poems,
Everything Talks, was published in 2008 by Auckland University Press (NZ) and Shearsman Books (UK). It won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry at the 2009 book awards. In June 2014, his second collection,
Halcyon Ghosts, appeared through Auckland University Press. On July 1, 2015, he recorded a series of eight poems for the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc), one of which was ‘Distant Trees’. Read a collection of galleries; from collaborative exhibitions, to readings, bookworks, and other projects on his site.
http://samsampson.co.nz/
