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The Disappearing is an innovative new [free] app for iPhone, iPad and Android that (literally) explores poetry and place. Transform the world around you with new poems by some of Australia's finest poets, who've created a poetic map charting traces, fragmentary histories, impressions and memories.
Beginning with a collection of over 100 poems about Sydney, The Disappearing will stretch across Australia during 2012. Along with previously unpublished poetry, The Disappearing features exclusive videos of readings and interviews with poets. Users can upload their own poems to The Disappearing, preserving ideas, emotions and experiences about their own environment that vanish over time (publisher blurb http://redroomcompany.org/projects/disappearing/ sighted 5/9/2012).
Contents
- Rosehilli"We settled into the soft leather", single work poetry
- The Confessions (after Saint Augustine) The Confessions of Saint Augustinei"I suffered when Una my first love", single work poetry
- My Grandfather's Ice Pigeonsi"My grandfather would walk into the house,", single work poetry
- Costumesi"Where to start - with Theory, with a reading list?", single work poetry
- Notes on the River 8i"Voila! Slums levelled, wharves, boat ramps", extract poetry
- Missing Personsi"From Tokyo to the Gold Coast they’d come. They were in the", single work multimedia
- Fablei"Once in a village the size of a stamp", single work poetry
- Things To Do (Heart)i"a. Find heart, and place hand upon it. b. time", single work poetry
- Glimpses and Ghosts on Larakia Landi"The Pix, forbidden by Nanna, so I was forced to sneakiness,", single work poetry
- The Reporti"You sit down to write a report entitled,", single work poetry
- The School Teacheri"The showering, brushing of teeth, careful", single work poetry
- Before Tomorrowi"Rain runs in strands,", single work poetry
- Threadi"White fabric, worn and soft.", single work multimedia
- Gethsemane at the Bowli"Stars empty themselves –", single work poetry
- Poetry Picture Show Tryptichi"JUMP CUT TO:", single work poetry
- What Ingrid Bergman Wantedi"Because the river is never still enough to reflect the sky,", single work poetry
- Potts Point Redevelopmenti"Only takes minutes for history to be bulldozed", single work poetry
- The Kitei"The back a separate body", single work poetry
- The Word : Melancholyi"I went to the races but the races were slow", single work poetry
- Sea Things, sequence poetry