{"id":27254,"date":"2014-11-11T06:30:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27254"},"modified":"2014-11-09T21:44:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T08:44:49","slug":"the-tuesday-poem-featuring-siobhan-harvey-autistic-cloud-boy-visits-auckland-art-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/the-tuesday-poem-featuring-siobhan-harvey-autistic-cloud-boy-visits-auckland-art-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tuesday Poem: Featuring Siobhan Harvey & “Autistic Cloud Boy Visits Auckland Art Gallery”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Autistic Cloudboy Visits Auckland Art Gallery
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1. Taranaki (and cloud), Wanganui, 15 April 1986<\/em><\/p>\n

Studying Aberhart, Cloudboy takes up a camera, empties land
\nof everyone except his mother, pictures the bare pathos of
\nwhat remains in photography, in black and white clouds.<\/p>\n

2. A Pair of Godwits<\/em><\/p>\n

Studying Palmer, Cloudboy wings his mother to canvas
\ndesolate as a godwit\u2019s flight; below cadmium sky, in oily air,
\nthey nest until the pull of somewhere else \u2013 a cloud \u2013 rises
\nthem to portray each other at the edge of the world.<\/p>\n

3. Aotearoa \u2013 Cloud<\/em><\/p>\n

Studying Albrecht, Cloudboy paints a shed of cloud
\nas solid as his mother\u2019s nerves; inside, they draw,
\neat, dance and sleep secure in the knowledge
\nthey\u2019ve sewn themselves into skin thin as white paper.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Siobhan Harvey<\/p>\n

Reproduced here with permission
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About The Poem:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Currently, I am re-posting poets who have had multiple poems featured here on \u201c\u2026Anything, Really\u201d<\/em> since I joined the Tuesday Poem community in June 2010. Siobhan Harvey\u2019s Autistic Cloud Boy Visits Auckland Art Gallery<\/em> is from her recently published collection, Cloudboy<\/em><\/strong> (Otago University Press, 2014), which won the prestigious Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry in 2013. The Autistic Cloudboy Visits Auckland Art Gallery<\/em> first featured here on April 9, 2013, as part of a series featuring ekphrastic poems (poems in response to works of art.)<\/p>\n

Siobhan also supplied the following Poet’s Note:<\/p>\n

\u201cAn intregral part of our landscape, our sense of belonging, clouds continue to remain invisible to many.\u00a0Parenting a child who, at 5 year\u2019s old, became\u00a0fixated with the firmament and the pictures he could\u00a0unlock there, the manner in which so many other people disregarded the clouds was made apparent to me.\u00a0At the same time, as my son charted (what became\u00a0for him) the exceedingly fraught terrain of his first primary\u00a0school,\u00a0during which\u00a0his\u00a0nephology was viewed by peers and teachers alike as esoteric and divorced from the everyday, I realised that in cloud-watching my son had become something akin to the focus of his obsession.\u00a0At 7 year\u2019s old\u00a0he received a diagnosis \u2013 ASD, or\u00a0Autism Spectrum\u00a0Disorder. That latter word, disorder, continues to feel like the\u00a0true\u00a0dysfunction to me, for many reason, not least of which is that when I took my son to the newly opened, newly renovated Auckland Art Gallery, we discovered his passion for the clouds replicated time and again in the photographs, paintings and imagery upon the walls. The cloud, we both understood then, is not the matter of dislocation or peculiarity, but the inspiration for and genesis of creativity,\u00a0\u2018The Autistic Cloudboy Visits Auckland Art Gallery\u2019 is part of a much larger\u00a0body of nephological poems which I\u2019ve written over the course of the last year or two and which, individually, like little clouds journeying hither and thither,\u00a0have found homes in magazines\u00a0in New Zealand, Australia, the US, England and wider Europe.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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About The Poet:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"SiobhanHarvey2012\"<\/a>Siobhan Harvey is the author of, Cloudboy<\/em> (Otago University Press, 2014), which was winner of New Zealand\u2019s richest prize for poetry, the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry.\u00a0Also recently released,\u00a0with Harvey as co-editor, is\u00a0Essential New Zealand Poems<\/em> (Penguin Random House NZ). Her other awards include\u00a0runner up in the 2014 New Zealand Poetry Society\u2019s International Poetry Competition,\u00a0runner up in 2012 Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize (Aus) and\u00a0runner up in 2012 Kevin Ireland Poetry Competition. Her work has recently been published in Books Unbound<\/em>, Evergreen Review<\/em>, Pilgrimage<\/em> (Colorado State University Press), Segue<\/em> (Miami University Press), Stand<\/em> (UK), Structo<\/em> (UK) and the New Zealand Poetry Society 2014 anthology, Taking Back the Sky<\/em>. Her creative nonfiction has been published in magazines in New Zealand and America, and\u00a0is a finalist in the 2014 Landfall Essay Prize, as well as being Highly Commended in 2013 Landfall Essay Prize, and runner-up in 2011 Landfall Essay Prize.\u00a0Between 2006 and 2013, Harvey co-ordinated New Zealand\u2019s National Poetry Day. She lectures in Creative Writing at AUT\u2019S Centre for Creative Writing, and\u00a0has a Poet\u2019s Page\u00a0on The Poetry Archive (UK), here: Siobhan Harvey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Autistic Cloudboy Visits Auckland Art Gallery . 1. Taranaki (and cloud), Wanganui, 15 April 1986 Studying Aberhart, Cloudboy takes up a camera, empties land of everyone except his mother, pictures the bare pathos of what remains in photography, in black and white clouds. 2. A Pair of Godwits Studying Palmer, Cloudboy wings his mother […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27254"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27259,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27254\/revisions\/27259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}