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Sightlines – a collaboration between poets and artists

Sightlines was the name of an art exhibition held in April 2022 at the Small Works Gallery in Murwillumbah, NSW (Australia) – a unique collaboration between artists and poets, which was launched with a poetry reading.  Five local poets, including me, were invited to submit poems which might inspire 11 local artists.  This collaboration was very exciting for us all! I submitted haiku, for the directness and immediacy of the visual images. Three artists chose four – or five – of them. (In the transcribing, sending poems over the internet, two haiku managed to run together as one poem. And hey, it really worked! An artist responded to it as a whole.)  To read the haiku, see all the artwork they inspired, and read what the artists say about the experience, see here.   Image © Annique Goldenberg 2022, photographed by Rosemary Nissen-Wade .