The small production.

{Dear Dad, this is how 1,000 poetry books are collated and bound, and all during a film festival. This is what those tweets meant.}

This is how things looked at home during the Melbourne International Film Festival and subsequent weeks. (In neighboring room, piles of folded washing yet to make it to cupboard and other daily particulars, but this is no home tour but a peek at a home poetry production line. Besides, I have always been fonder of fiction over fact.) When not seated in darkened theatre eating honeyed cashews between cinematic sessions, Louise and I worked on the collating and binding of some 1,000 poetry books for Australian Poetry. The above is how things looked before we set to work. It is ready and waiting. Load your brush with glue and set to work on those red spines. One, two, three, four. Collate, collate, collate.

Australian Poetry, to celebrate Dads and all things related, invites you to Dear Dad Revisited

Sunday September 4th, 2011

Wheeler Centre
176 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne

1.15 – 1.45pm

(Copies of Dear Dad will be available for purchase. Alternatively, you can order a copy online.)

+ This is how 50 poetry books are bound.