They started with me! (Pardon my excitement.) Enterprising young poet Sarah Temporal has just organised a new series of monthly poetry readings in Murwillumbah NSW where I live (and she lives). They began last Thursday with a varied and exciting program of two featured readers (me and Matt Hetherington ) and lots of brilliance in the open sections. Here I am in full emote on the night: And these are the poems I read, the first two from my book Secret Leopard, the second two much more recent. You can click the links for the individual poems, to read them on my poetry blogs, The Passionate Crone and Enheduanna's Dauggter . The Day We Lost the Volkswagen Vagabond Sonnet Written Upon a Tim Tam The Advantages of Poetry