Martin Alexander

In Grandma’s house when we arrived on leave
the grand piano yawned and woke from two years’ sleep
and bared its gleaming teeth – black-gapped and white –
sprawled out, a friendly beast across the sunny parlour floor.

There was a box of sandstone bricks
for building castles by the fire. We had a
satisfying way of making thunder for our cannon
with a fist of lower keys until the staircase thundered too
with Mummy’s tread: “Don’t touch it!” and we

The University of South Pacific is hosting a conference on creativity and climate change. Suva, Fiji. 13 - 17 September 2010.

“The conference will bring together writers, artists and environmental activists in providing an alternative culture of determination of responses to issues like climate change.”

They invite academics, writers and artists to attend.

For more information: http://www.usp.ac.fj/index.php?id=9020