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TRUCKER'S STORY * Australia - Poetry in motion: hunt for trucking odes to the roads
He's a king of the ode
Sydney,NSW,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald, by Steve Meacham -February 8, 2009: -- Mick O'Brien, father of four, is a self-employed truckie. His working life is spent plying the Hume Highway, back and forth between his home in Clonbinane, an hour north of Melbourne, and his turnaround destination in Sydney's Eastern Creek... Four times a week he drives between the two capitals. His wife, Kim, is a qualified truckie, too... But Mr O'Brien is also a wandering wordsmith - a bush ballardeer whose work has been accepted into Dust Poems, a unique project to explore Australia's untapped sources of verse... Dust Poems began when Joanne Featherstone - artistic director of the Red Room Company, which aims to bring poetry into the lives of ordinary people - called in at a truck stop restaurant between Sydney and Canberra... (Wandering wordsmith … Melbourne truckie Mick O'Brien pens a few lines while on a run to Sydney.Photo: Domino Postiglione)Labels: truckers' stories
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