Simon describes himself as “one of those poorly ironed white collars that got halfway up the career ladder and realised it had left something behind”, namely writing.
Daylighting in education, moonlighting in poetry, the sum total of his awards list is two jars of jam, although he is one of the esteemed, monthly call-back poets for Speedpoets, one of the best-loved and longest-running of Brisbane’s poetry events.
Simon’s work explores the sublime and the ordinary in the colliding territories of landscape, the body, and the whole human mess. While his forays into performance poetry may be humble so far, he has an open, gentle performance style, a generous grasp of human emotion, and a willingness to carefully peel back the seemingly ordinary to reveal what lies underneath.
Simon will perform spoken word in Brisbane Emerging Art Festival 2013
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