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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Dust Poems
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'Dust Poems, our first project for 2009, has been created in partnership with Sydney Olympic Park Authority and coincides with the Royal Easter Show. Exploring the words of truckies and their experiences of the road, the project commissions three truck-driving poets and three professional poets who work in non-trucking industries. Often ignored, repudiated and misunderstood, truckies in their constant travels see more sides to this country and its people than just about anyone else - and we want it into words.

This project draws out and showcases language that carries truckies' unique perspectives on Australian life (and death), landscapes, foibles, practices, fauna, flora and humanity. At the same time, the project is a way of paying tribute to the men, women, families and animals who ply the highways and byways of this vast and awesome nation and help keep the country running.

Construction sites, carparks and hidden locations of Sydney Olympic Park will be transformed by installations that display the six poems in interactive ways. The public will be invited into these spaces by way of a route map that navigates a Truck Poem Search. The Search will contain toy trucks donated by the public, and poems logged at the Park by roaming visitors.'

Source: Dust Poems website, http://dustpoems.com/

Sighted: 31/03/2009

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  • As at 2016, the Dust Poems website is no longer available.

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Truckie Poets in Top Gear 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Artery , Autumn no. 9 2009; (p. 15)
Poetry in Motion: Hunt for Trucking Odes to the Roads Steve Meacham , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 8 February 2009; (p. 10)
Steve Meacham reports on the Red Room Company's project Dust Roads, the 2009 project tracking poetry written by truck drivers. (The project's website provides more information: http://dustpoems.com/)
Poetry in Motion: Hunt for Trucking Odes to the Roads Steve Meacham , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 8 February 2009; (p. 10)
Steve Meacham reports on the Red Room Company's project Dust Roads, the 2009 project tracking poetry written by truck drivers. (The project's website provides more information: http://dustpoems.com/)
Truckie Poets in Top Gear 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Artery , Autumn no. 9 2009; (p. 15)
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