| 
POEMS FOR SALE
$20 per set
To VIEW the poems click here
Major Sponsors
Supporting Partners
|
Toilet Doors Poetry
Toilet Door Poetry is our public space poetry project for 2006.
It displayed six illustrated Australian poems across a mix of Qantas domestic terminals, Greater Union and Village cinemas, nationally, during April.
The project had a live event on April 1st, at Customs House, Circular Quay. It featured poets reading their poems, delivery of the mineslec & a toilet door, built for the occasion.
Read the mineslec or View the invitation
Click here for our toilet door poetry newsletter
The poems replaced advertising with poetry and art by emerging Australian poets and artists in spaces that are both very public, and uniquely private.
From over 300 entries we selected poems by the following six poets :
Elizabeth Allen ‘Before tomorrow’
Keri Glastonbury ‘subtle plague:’
Andrew Slattery ‘The Glacier’
Lisa Gorton ‘Occupation’
Liam Ferney ‘Small days’
Ed Wright ‘Hanami’
Under the direction of our design partners ‘Designworks’ the poems are illustrated by the following six artists
Inari Kiuru
Samantha Denmark
Owen Swan
Matthew On
Jamie Fawdray
Sally Mazak The Mineslec
Poet, Bronwyn Lea wrote and delivered a lecture on ‘poetry and space’, called The Mineslec : a brief public address combining essay and lecture forms at the writer's whim. Poetic at heart and experimental in nature, often collaborative.
The Audio recordings
The community radio network broadcast the toilet door poems,recorded at the live event 10th May 2006
Listen to the poets read their poems
By clicking on individual poets' names
Venues
Qantas domestic terminals in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, and
cinemas as follows :
State Shopping Mall - Strip
| Victoria |
|
|
|
|
| Jam Factory |
|
|
Chapel Street, South Yarra |
| Sunshine |
|
|
|
Sunshine Market Place, Shopping Centre |
| Rivolli |
|
|
|
Camberwell Road, Camberwell |
| CBD |
|
|
|
Bourke Street, Melbourne. |
| Crown |
|
|
|
Crown Casino Complex, Southbank |
| Southland |
|
|
|
Westfield Shopping Centre |
| Knox City |
|
|
|
Knox Shopping Centre (AMP) |
| Glen Waverley |
|
|
Centuary City Walk Shopping Centre |
| Waverley Gardens |
|
|
Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre |
| Fountain Gate |
|
|
Westfield Shopping Centre |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Sydney |
|
|
|
|
| Burwood |
|
|
|
Westfield Shopping Centre |
| Glendale |
|
|
|
Stockland Shopping Centre |
| Hornsby |
|
|
|
Westfield Shopping Centre |
| Hurstville |
|
|
|
Westfield Shopping Centre |
| Liverpool |
|
|
|
Westfield Shopping Centre |
| Macquarie |
|
|
|
Macquarie Shopping Centre |
| Castle Hill |
|
|
|
Castle Towers Shopping Centre |
| Miranda |
|
|
|
Westfield Shopping Centre |
| Parramatta |
|
|
Westfield Shopping Centre |
| Tuggerah |
|
|
|
Westfield Shopping Centre |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Brisbane |
|
|
|
|
| Chermside |
|
|
Westfield Shopping Centre |
| Garden City |
|
|
Shopping Centre |
| Indooroopilly |
|
|
Shopping Centre |
| Myer Centre - CBD |
|
|
Queen Street Mall |
| Regent - CBD |
|
|
Queen Street Mall |
| Browns Plains |
|
|
Grand Plaza Shopping Centre |
| Carindale |
|
|
|
Carindale Shopping Centre |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Gold Coast & Sunshine Coast |
|
|
| Pacific Fair |
|
|
Pacific Fair Shopping Centre (AMP) |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Perth |
|
|
|
|
| Morley |
|
|
|
|
| Innaloo |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| Adelaide |
|
|
|
|
| The Marion |
|
|
Westfield Shopping Centre |
The selection process
A national call out to emerging Australian poets attracted over 300 entries. For this project, emerging poets was defined has having no more than two major book length publication. We would expect the poets are not well known necessarily to the literary establishment, their peers or to the general public.
The six poets were selected by Peter Boyle, Johanna Featherstone and Bonny Cassidy in consultation with our partners - The City of Sydney, DesignWorks, Jacqui Geia, from JB Seeds Foundation, Qantas, The Letter Corporation and Greater Union and Village cinemas.
The design process
Each of the six artists were given a poem each to illustrate. The final template design was coordinated into a template, created by Designworks.
|
