September Call Back Poet: Cameron Logan

With less than a week to go until the October event, it is with great excitement that I post the feature on the September Call Back Poet, Cameron Logan. Cameron’s impassioned reading of his poem IPSWICH, had the crowd hollering  and grabbed the attention of everyone in the room!

If you want to join Jo Brooks, Carmen Leigh Keates, Marisa Allen, Michael Cohen, Andrew Phillips, Chloe Callistemon & Cameron, don’t miss the gig this Sunday (October 7 @ Brew, 2:30pm – 5pm) as the final Call Back Poet for the year will be named. So bring your finest to the mic and let the words make the air swirl. Sign for the open mic starts at 2pm!

Now, over to Cameron:

IPSWICH
Pearl of cities! Depending of course on the value of the pearl in question, whether the value of the pearl is greater than or equal to the value of Brisbane!
IPSWICH
Oldest city in Queensland! Old that is from a human perspective but taken in the grand scheme of the universe and everything in it is barely greater than a speck of dust in the desert!
IPSWICH
King of railway! That is assuming that railways have kings! Dynasties! Royal families! Courtly protocol! The Feudal System! That is assuming that freight trains are the proletariet and passenger trains are the bourgeoisie! Perhaps the trains are all actually Republicans!
IPSWICH
Home of an excellent art gallery that is both artistic and excellent and possibly a number of other adjectives also though one must not be too specific when it comes to art!
IPSWICH
Home of a thriving cafe culture! Though that’s not to say that cafes have their own languages, customs and migration patterns!
IPSWICH
Home to many great bush poets and also a few bad ones!
IPSWICH
Home of the free, and home of the brave, and also home to those who are both, and also home to those who are neither, and also home to those who believe that freedom and bravery are subjective variables, and also home to whoever it was who stole my car tires twice!
IPSWICH
Where the pubs are heritage listed, to ensure that future generations can get drunk and say they are contributing on a cultural level!
IPSWICH
Home of a shopping mall that everyone pretends to hate even though they really don’t ’cause it’s trendy to complain about urban sprawl!
IPSWICH

I like Ipswich.

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Cameron is a hybrid of farm labourer and perpetual arts degree monkey. He enjoys slam poetry, page poetry and most garden varieties of spoken word. He likes long walks across arctic tundra and shouting at people in cafes. In his spare time he tries to think of the least original thought in the world.