Happy snaps from the opening of MY FIRST FOREST OF WORDS and the big 7 book Flying Islands Boolaunch at the Addi Rd Writers' Festival -- Saturday 16th May, 2026

 

in the Stirrup Gallery, Addi Rd 

Happy snaps (various sources) from the opening of 

Kit Kelen's

MY FIRST FOREST OF WORDS 

& 

the big 7 book Flying Islands Boolaunch at the Addi Rd Writers' Festival -- 

Saturday 16th May, 2026 

Peter Boyle 

Damien Becker 

Gillian Rubinstein 

Marl Mahemoff

Chris Mansell 

Clark Gormley

Nadia Wheatley

Brook Emery 

Ronald Atilano 

Sophie Loy-Wilson 

M/Cs -- Clark Gormley and Gillian Swain 

Paul Searles 

Gillian Swain 

DG Lloyd

 

Josh Stenberg 

Mark Mordue 

Dael Allison 

Mark Mahemoff

#2336 -- on a biscuit day in May

 

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on a biscuit day in May

 

out collecting the last of the light

 

bells above

a singing creek

 

road run off

 

the rounding of a sky

 

things connect

and but there’s space

 

listen for a wingswoop

feel the very bones inside

 

it’s my playscape

with the trees to speak

 

look up to them

look out!

 

who’s here to climb?

 

line of the slipping sun

shadow’s last cast

 

over the range before us

a next then

you’ll have to imagine sea

where a sun lives

 

forget the birthday of the car

 

it hollows the head to believe

 

gather up dry kindle sticks

 

we will say winter soon