The Sun
we make ourselves
stories bright as fire
from teeth and stone and
feather
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‘in all poetry a word is like a sun’ – ernest fenollosa
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it starts with sound
a seed
a stone
cast into carbon
chance
Tamryn Bennett is a poet and Artistic Director of Red Room Poetry living on Dharawal land. She has founded a number of poetic projects including Poetry Month and Poem Forest. Her two poetry collections are
Icaros (Vagabond Press) and
phosphene (Rabbit Poetry). She is also editor of
A Line in the Sand: 20 Years of Red Room Poetry (Pantera Press) and
Líneas en tierra / Lines in land— a bilingual collection of Mexican poetry (Australian Poetry). Tamryn collaborates with many artists and her poetic projects have been exhibited and published widely in Australia and internationally including with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Kennedy Centre, USA.
Jackie Cavallaro is an artist working predominantly with paper. She uses images from art history combined, coloured, layered and cutout to create enigmatic narratives. In 2008 she began collaborating with artist and poet Tamryn Bennett whose words are weaved through the images to add layers to the work. She has exhibited with NG Art Sydney, Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne and Jankossen Contemporary in Basel Switzerland. She studied at COFA UNSW and her most recent exhibition was the Diorama Exhibition at Wollongong City Gallery.