Clay T<p>1/2</p><p>Since the plague year of 2020, my friend and collaborator, the artist Graham Farram (who is such a bon vivant that he’s not on Facebook or other social media) has been making recordings of readings of poems from Noisesome Ghosts: my 2018 collection of poems about documented cases of ghosts and poltergeists that have the ability to speak or write. </p><p>At the start of the year just passed, Graham had reached a critical mass of these recordings (about forty) and we – and Graham’s life and artistic collaborator Marie Farram – began to think about ways that we might share them with others. Armed with little but infectious enthusiasm and a free Wix website, we hit upon the idea that we could publish the recordings thereon … but how could we tie all the recordings together and coherently introduce them to an audience? In less sophisticated and less shamelessly self-promoting days we might have just tacked up a little sign that said, “here are some readings that Graham did of some weird poems that Clay wrote” and been done with it, but, no, we rather grandiosely decided that we needed to be interviewed about the whole project and set about recruiting an interviewer that we knew would complement us as sure as Graham’s readings complemented the collection’s poems.</p><p>We immediately seized on the idea of our erstwhile colleague, our friend and fellow poet, Linda Albertson, as being our interviewer and we were both delighted when she accepted the role. We knew Linda to be both a sophisticated and a sensitive writer and reader of poetry who would not only bring these skills to the project, but who would suitably keep us on-task in a way that only a respected librarian can. We felt that with the three of us, we could produce a coherent introduction to the recordings that an audience might appreciate.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ExperimentalPoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalPoetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ghost</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/poltergeist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poltergeist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/paranormal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paranormal</span></a></p>