WHEN YOUR LOVE IS GONE by JIMMY BARNES. Poem by Michael Leach
Michael Leach recalls hearing a Jimmy Barnes song, 30 years apart.
MORNING ELVIS by FLORENCE + THE MACHINE. Poem by Michael Leach
Micheal Leach joins the dots between Elvis, Florence + The Machine, and the Graceland exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery (which concluded on 17 July 2022).
I’M STAINED by THE SUPERJESUS. Limerick by Michael Leach
Michael Leach pens a limerick about a Superjesus guitar pick.
PICK A PART THAT’S NEW by THE STEREOPHONICS. Poem by Michael Leach
I find myself on my own/in the Forum,/flying solo/at the first gig/I’ve ever dared/attend without a friend.
Elvis, Graceland and seven haiku by Michael Leach
Poet Michael Leach riffs on visiting the Elvis exhibition at the Bendigo Art Gallery.
NOW AND THEN by THE SUPERJESUS. Prose poem by Michael Leach
On a fresh midmorning, I alight my bus at the east end of Adelaide’s CBD and proceed to speed walk along cracked concrete, as The Superjesus’s track ‘Now and Then’ begins on my iPod.
SIMPLY THE BEST by NOAH REID. Poem by Michael Leach.
Soon each groom/ walks down a natural aisle/ with his sister & his canine/ to sounds of sincerest acoustic music.
PILGRIM by ERIC CLAPTON. Poem by Brian A Salmons
...just happy/to be free again, talking about whatever with anybody, standing in line/with impunity on a Saturday for an Icee.
UNCLE PAT by ASH. Poem by Michael Leach
This Labour Day,/I find myself walking/while listening/to Uncle Pat/by Ash.
PEOPLE LIVE HERE by RISE AGAINST Poem by Murray Taylor
...We weren’t ones for cliché/Unless performed ironically./Weeks drift by,/The comfort of familiar phrases,/Of gestures and faces...