They say Australians will put their money on anything - but what about a poem? "Pigeon Poetry", held on August 3, 2008, brought poetry and sport side by side!
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The Red Room Company commissioned eight poets from across the country to each write a poem that would be raced by thoroughbred pigeons on August 3, 2008. Punters studied an online form guide of the poets, pigeons and poems that flew, and made "bets" by donation. The birds homed from Stanwell Tops to Mt Ousley on NSW's South Coast, covering about 60km between 15 and 20 minutes. See below for the details of each pigeon, poet and poem that flew, and explore the rest of the site to find out what happened on the field...
Pigeon: Real Radio
Poet: Brook Emery
Poem: Proof
Pigeon: Old Man Time
Poet: Alan Gould
Poem: Unidentified Music
Pigeon: The Big Ish
Poet: Craig Sherborne
Poem: Totalizator
Pigeon: Sydney PEN Shadow
Poet: Kate Fagan
Poem: Workman, Honeyeater
Pigeon: Jimbala
Poet: Ivy Ireland
Poem: Velocity
Pigeon: Newsflash
Poet: Anthony Lawrence
Poem: A Sound For Leaving
Pigeon: This Is Not Art Smokey
Poet: Andy Quan
Poem: A word from the feral pigeon
Pigeon: The Baron
Poet: Robert Adamson
Poem: My Grandfather’s Ice Pigeons
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