Moving Galleries

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• ‘Hurt Sonnet’ by Justin Clemens

  I’m listening to Hurt, which Johnny Cash
  now sings: the needle’s in his voice, a ghost
  lends him its wings, and even with the clash ...

   
• ‘sun after rain’ by Carla Sari

  sun after rain
  a fox dares me to cross
  her path

   
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• ‘Night Frequencies’ by David McCooey

  The lights in the street
  are gold or white or blue.

  The primitive grass says nothing
  of what’s to come. ...

   
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• ‘hazel’ by Ashley Capes

  little girl sweeps herself
  across the park
  a pretty burn
  of yellow cloth ...

   
• ‘da Vinci’s List’ by Alicia Sometimes

  Leonardo da Vinci wrote a list
  of things he wanted to know:
  the cause of tickling
  the tongue of the woodpecker ...

   
• ‘busking on the bridge at Footscray Station’ by Peter Davis

  The wind rhymes with the sound of their pants

  brushing against their legs. The music must shift

  to a higher register, whenever the diesel trains roar. ...

   

moving melbourne through art

Moving Galleries is a travelling exhibition of art and poetry on Melbourne’s city trains. Similar to the trains in New York, London and Hong Kong, Melbourne’s trains offer a unique space for artists and poets to showcase their work to commuters. At the same time, commuters get to more broadly interact with the culture of their city.

The daily commute becomes an admission ticket to Melbourne’s most accessible creative space – a train carriage where every seat offers a fresh artistic and literary experience.

Moving Galleries aim is to reach and engage an extensive and diverse community in the course of daily life by moving Melbourne through art and poetry. Through partnerships with Victorian arts organisations, Moving Galleries is expanding access to the public of the innovative creative arts projects and initiatives that exist within Melbourne and Victoria. As the poetry section of Moving Galleries is open for public submission, both professional and novice poets have been selected for publication. The poetry on the walls of the trains provides the commuting public with a snapshot of Victoria’s literary talent.

Moving Galleries is an initiative of the Committee for Melbourne and is supported by the Victorian Government’s Department of Transport.

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