South Coast Poets Out Loud
Fresh new poetry and writing brought to you by the South Coast Writers Centre.
Season 6 features poems from 34-37 Degrees South Poetry Anthology for 2025 on the theme 'Words / No Words'.
Season 5 features poems shortlisted in the 2025 South Coast Writers Centre Awards as well as readings from Temple - the 2024 anthology of writing.
Season 3 features poets from the anthology 34-37 Degrees South - Signs 2024. Season 2 features poets shortlisted for the South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Awards 2024. Season 1 features poets from the anthology - 34-37 Degrees South - Country 2023.
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South Coast Poets Out Loud
Traveller Story by Moira Kirkwood
Moira Kirkwood reads her poem 'Traveller Story'
This poem appears in 34-37 Degrees South 2025 - An Anthology of Poetry from members of the South Coast Writers Centre.
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Traveller story by Moira Kirkwood
The 6am Sydney train hauls workers up from the coast:
pillows, eye-masks, and rugs. Some corporate types
with lit faces; some book-readers, too. Yes, still some
books: see? Some old things stay.
A couple travels together. Each day, as the train nears
Sutherland, they stand and exchange three chaste
pecks on the lips. The carriage is otherwise absolutely
soundless.
One.
Two.
Three.
He leaves, and she settles back down in the nest.
Each morning I wait to hear it completed, that sweet
ritual—yes, all is well—and see him on his blameless way.