Kids, this week, we’re going, as Oprah
Winfrey told her audience in Season 25, to
the other side of the world! Imagine Oprah’s excited voice, saying: “You’re going to Australia!!!!!” We
are going to meet the very interesting and talented Gemma Wiseman, of Greyscale Territory - Poetic Songlines. As Gemma explains in her About page, songlines are
paths across the land, along which the Aborigines find their way across unknown
terrain, by knowing and remembering the land’s song. The literal meaning of
songlines is “to sing the trail”, to remember the physical landscape in song.
This has always held a wonderful mystique for me. So come along. Let’s sing our
way home along some beautifully poetic songlines.
Poets
United: Gemma, we have much in
common! I have been browsing your profile info, and your many sites, and am so
looking forward to this visit with you! Okay, the very first question I have to
ask, since I am an Oprah fan, is did you see Oprah Winfrey when she was in
Melbourne?
