We pay homage to Australia’s original storytellers who remind us that storytelling is about deep listening. We recognise Australia’s First Nations Peoples for their ongoing connection to storytelling, country, culture, and community. We also respectfully acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we’re all situated and recognise that it was never ceded.  

These three pieces are excerpts from the author’s manuscript Around A Word, which is a collection of cyclic verse that presupposes a poem having no beginning or end and working in both rhyme and prose.

By Rick K. Reut.