Anthem; elegy
Patrick Jones
yr breaTh is shallow
sHallow spirit –
yr breath is cLosed
clOsed body –
Stimulants
and anxieTy flipping
yr Breath is dying
assisted prOlonged
(yr biRth traumatic
iNduced cut open)
unpRepared for life
unprepAred for death
yr Breath is out –
out of spIrit
unperformeD
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Jones’ work as a writer of poetry and non-fiction, a visual artist and as an ecological thinker has appeared or been discussed in various publications including Meanjin, Cordite, Arena, Jacket, D!SSENT, PAN (Philosophy, Activism, Nature), Southerly, Heat, Rabbit, unMagazine, Blue Dog, Going Down Swinging, The Atlantic Monthly (US), ecopoetics (US), Tarpaulin Sky (US), Spiral Orb (US), Angelaki (UK), The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He recently completed doctoral work at the University of Western Sydney within the Writing and Society Research Group, where he developed the practices of 'permapoesis' and walked-for food. In October 2015 he and his partner Meg Ulman released The Art of Free Travel (NewSouth Publishing, UNSW Press). permapoesis // the artist as family