18 August 2008
Emerging writers - Nathan Curnow's Ghost Poetry
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If you go to Port Arthur in Tasmania there's a display of photos at the entrance that have been sent in by visitors to the prison. These are strange images that are hard to explain -- like a shadow where none should be -- is it a trick of the light, or a ghost captured on film?
Many visitors experience Port Arthur as spooky -- as if the suffering of its inmates has seeped into the stone walls -- as if the spirits of former inmates remain trapped there in the ruins.
There are other sites like this in Australia which have a traumatic past.
Nathan Curnow summoned his courage to visit ten of Australia's haunted places to write poetry inspired by their histories of sorrow, murder and intrigue.
The Book Show's Sarah L'Estrange spoke to Nathan Curnow for our Emerging Writers Series, and he explained how his Ghost Poetry Project came about.
Guests
Nathan Curnow
Australian poet and playwright.
Further Information
Nathan Curnow at the Melbourne Writers' Festival 2008
Presenter
Sarah L'Estrange
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