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A port­manteau. A treas­ure trove. A time cap­sule. A poetry book. A diary. A photo album. Memor­ies. Dreams. Wishes. Hopes. An open letter to an unsus­pect­ing public. An intim­ate con­fes­sion to close friends. A declar­a­tion of intent. A whis­per of love. A per­sonal record. An exper­i­ment in intro­spec­tion. A per­form­ance space. A polit­ical rant. A wild yawp. Why do any of us pub­lish our words and images online? Come, dream with me.

Protest…

by | Aug 7, 2006 |

So, one other thing. Today was Naga­saki day and as a result, the Hiroshima Day rally was held in the city. There were many, many young people wear­ing sweat­shirts with “Lebanon” writ­ten on the back and waving Lebanese flags. I was very uncom­fort­able with a peace rally…

Reflections on being

by | Aug 7, 2006 |

When I haven’t been catch­ing up on work recently, I’ve been watch­ing film fest­ival films. The week­end has been par­tic­u­larly reward­ing: I highly recom­mend Al Gore’s An Incon­veni­ent Truth about cli­mate change and global warm­ing which I saw yes­ter­day, and the three films…

On the run

by | Jul 27, 2006 |

Five minute run-down: Hired ad guy with all the right moves. He respon­ded to the Seek ad. Best thing ever: we’re poach­ing him from Fair­fax! 3.5 weeks give or take till I see Doug. Love is start­ing to over­take any form of fear as the dom­in­ant emo­tion. This is…

The aftermath

by | Jul 19, 2006 |

A good night at the poetry gig with a pleas­ing attend­ance and good book sales (sold 16, which isn’t really a lot from 50, so I have a ton left). Who wanted and where am I send­ing them? E‑mail rbersten@heliotrope.net.au with orders and I will respond with payment…

Israel

by | Jul 16, 2006 |

I’m feel­ing my way to responses on this. I don’t have intel­lec­tual ones yet, not coher­ently, anyway. I saw a guy at the Picasso exhibit today wear­ing a kippah and, having just read about Sonia Mosse (was that her name?), the artist who stayed with Picasso and Maar in…

Despair

Despair

by | Jul 15, 2006 |

I cannot com­pre­hend what Israel has chosen to do in the last few weeks, nor how this ‘escal­a­tion’ is sup­posed to solve any­thing. Do they really think they’ll get their sol­diers back by killing civil­ians? How can they not see the con­sequences of this? I also want to…

Reminder: poetry gig!

Reminder: poetry gig!

by | Jul 13, 2006 |

I got word from the print­ers today that my little books are ready to be picked up, so we’re all set for the book launch on Tues­day! Books will be around the $12.50 mark but anyone wish­ing to make addi­tional dona­tions is very wel­come because that price only covers my…

Too much work, random thoughts

by | Jul 9, 2006 |

Wading through volun­teer jobs I prom­ised to do that now have to be done on week­ends instead of during my lazy (ha!) week­days of yes­ter­month. A silly real­isa­tion yes­ter­day that I was very chuffed about: con­nect­ing the phrase “à  tes souhaits” (to your wishes, which is…

Phoenix Emberstone

Phoenix Emberstone

pas­sion­ate polit­ical poet

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I am also known as Ro Ber­sten, a com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist with more than 20 years’ exper­i­ence. See my CV and pro­fes­sional projects.