Sea Things

Follow a duffel bag of poetry, carried by cargo ship up the coast of Australia, to Thursday Island ... Don't look inside. And when you finally set foot on the sand, open the bag and find... Sea Things. The ocean has long been a subject for poetry and poetic musings. In Sea Things we journey up the coast in the company of two duffel bags, transported by ship and collecting poems for the Red Room Company's project. On the journey all sorts of people are met - some write poetry on paper and others just live it but all are tied to the sea. Guests: Brett Thomas, Ships master, Temple Bay, Lockhardt River, far north Queensland; Kerry Ashwin, poet; Delma Bon, Crayfisherman, Thursday Island; Marty Bugg, First officer, Trinity Bay MV, Sea Swift company; The children of Tagai state college and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart School; Graeme Miles; Poet and lecturer in the school of history and classics; Johanna Featherstone, Red Room Company director; Kelly Osmond, Ships officer and former barramundi fisher; Dave Jordan, Former Royal Australian Navy commander; Alan Gould, Poet and writer; Frank David, Thursday Island cultural officer.  Sound engineer: Russell Stapleton.