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January 1, 2017December 19, 2017

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From a newish poem up at NOBLE/GAS QTRLY Basketball in Davao ‘barefoot for hours feathers tufting from your toes swinging in the space between asphalt and hoop’ - Rico Craig #basketball #davao #philippines #police #poetry #poetryofig #ricocraig #noblegasqtrly #boneink #igreads #photography

From Monsoonal Light of Our Childhood: Our nights are manifold, never-ending, they wear the shellac from our fingers - Rico Craig #poetry #poetryofig #igreads #poetrybook #malaysia #westernsuburbs #ricocraig #boneink #poetrycommunity #photography #kennethslessorpoetryprize

From Abruption - near the bear, northern: Oceans exhale the history of ice clouds conceal a breach waves gnaw a new waterline and I stand on shore - Rico Craig #poetry #abruption #beaufortsea #poetry #poetryofig #poetrybook #igreads #igpoetry #poetrycommunity #ricocraig #boneink #kennethslessorpoetry #kennethslessorpoetryprize

Pretty excited about this! BONE INK has been short listed for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. So happy to be on such a fantastic short list. The list includes: Adam Aitken Jordie Albiston Bella Li Nguyen Tiên Hoàng Omar Sakr And a reminder that I’m still on the search for a new publisher for Bone Ink...message away I am ready to listen! #ricocraig #nswpla #kennethslessorpoetry #kennethslessorpoetryprize #ricocraig #boneink #sydney #poetry #poet #poem #poetrybook #igpoetry #igreads #needanewpublisher

So @archieislander and I had a chat about poetry, boys, losing your publisher, ghosts, tongues, fire and ash. And the Glasgow Review of Books decided to publish it, here’s an extract: CA: I read (I’m paraphrasing) that you wrote partly as a way of repaying debts to people. I find this idea of words as unsaid gesture quite fascinating and I know that’s it’s something I’ve done myself (even where it will definitely go unnoticed). Is that something you feel able to say more about? There are quite a few religious references throughout Bone Ink which I read as sardonic, perhaps incorrectly, what’s your thinking then in this respect, and do you see the poems as a form of reparation? RC: Definitely sardonic, my debts are all here in the real world and if anyone is keeping score it’s real people. Repaying debts isn’t the main reason I write, but I’m conscious of promises made and people lost. I’m also conscious of borrowing from people I’ve known, writing without permission, stealing moments that no one else knows about. Sometimes, even if I don’t think people will ever remember what happened, or read what I’ve written, the poems are a way of saying I remember that thing we did, that place we were, it was real. Maybe that’s reparation, maybe it just a way of holding on to ghosts. To check out the rest head over to the Glasgow Review of Books. #poetry #ricocraig #poetrybook #boneink #poetrycommunity #oilrigs #tounges #fire #ash #poetrychat #glasgow #westernsydney #angelo #lampedo #ghosts

From Hand in Glove Camden in the cinch of your love line the knuckle-bump mistakes of N1 each finger stretched supple to a river crossing - Rico Craig #igpoetry #poem #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetrybook #london #camden #ricocraig #boneink #writing #igreads