Danny Gardner Danny Gardner i(A7404 works by)
Born: Established: 1953 ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Presence : Live Poets' 30 Years at Don Bank Danny Gardner (editor), Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2022 25497983 2022 anthology poetry 'Welcome to Live Poets ’30 Years at Don Bank, focusing particularly on the years 2015 to the present. There are special chapters on the Live Poets Players and Other Events Where Music and Art have featured. We salute the icons of Live Poets past. We look at how the Live Poets interview was initiated. We track our monthly meetings with our annual competitions and atmosphere features like ‘Literary Cities’, cultural and travel eye-witness responses, historical testaments, and so on.' (Publication summary) 
1 y separately published work icon Figure in the Landscape Danny Gardner , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2022 24291084 2022 selected work poetry

Responses to poems in Figure in the Landscape - 

'Dirk Kruithof, commenting on the poems about art/artists and music/musicians

''Danny's poems are compellingly enjoyable. (I've just raced through those, have you got any more?) They are human, perceptive and idiosyncratic - he's not afraid to cut through the lazy conventions of thought.'

'George Clark, responding to the sequence 'Spain, Are you Here (early 1980s)'

''There is so much poetry in Spanish history! You have caught it like Laurie Lee in his book A Rose for Winter. The surly Basques are there too and the Duende: 'be aware that Death comes to all.' The last line in your sequence - 'We all have a Spanish mother' - is a great compliment to all our mothers. You have created windows in time.'

'Les Wicks, responding to poems with turns of contemporary commentary - a wide mix

''Really excited revisiting your work. There is a realism that is sharp enough to wound. But always engaged, human.'

'Martin Langford

''These poems vary from personal experiences and travel accounts (south-west Tasmania, the Finke River) to meditations on historical events. Often the poems seize on potent images: a blanket made from human hair in Auschwitz, the nightmare of Jan Pelgrom de Bye, put ashore for mutiny on the WA coast in 1629 or Reinhold Messner's pursuit of the Yeti. They are poems with a contemporary imagination and curiosity, containing both a stubborn political insistence and a very modern doubt about the direction of history and the speaker's relationship to the landscape.'

'Philip Radmall, responding to the sequence 'From Arles, Provence'

''The beautifully crafted realism of these poems is both personal and relevatory. We are drawn gently into the intimacies and particulars of Vincent's world, the physical, every day world around him - and then take a new breath at the profundity and vulnerability inherent in each encounter with it. Each poem is a dazzling vignette, a direct insight into an artist's passion, into the questionings and realisations of a man travailling but rejoicing in the great mysteries of art and life.'

'Philip Radmall, responding to the sequence 'Thameside Cohorts (early 1980s)'

'In each poem we meet with vivid, eye-opening images that come off the page and whirl about us as we thrill to the bold realities of 1980s London: rough streets, run-down train stations, boxing gyms and seedy East End rooms, and all the visitants of these, illumined with a stark, backlit grunge that is raw, confronting and alive. We too become the visitants here, haunting the same sights, sensing the same offerings - so evocative is the journey through.'' (Publication summary)

1 Some Sort of Reason i "We, apparently , have some sort of reason,", Danny Gardner , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: I Protest! Poems of Dissent 2020; (p. 50)
1 Time Belongim You, Massa i "When I opened my eyes again", Danny Gardner , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mountain Secrets 2019; (p. 106)
1 Entering the Forest... i "You absorb the pungent smells and stray cries", Danny Gardner , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Wild 2018; (p. 103)
1 Danny Gardner and Maureen Ten Co-launch Belgrove Press’s First Title for 2017 : Willem Tibben’s ‘suburban Veneer Danny Gardner , Ten Ch'in U , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , July-September no. 23 2017;

'We are prompted to ask what lies beneath the veneer. In the first segment ‘the smell of cows’ it is habitations, movements, the states of being of myriad life-forms. Willem is engaged in attentive observation of each creature enacting its drama, its cabaret, its well-made play. He gives us unmistakable images of the situation, the gesture, the unfolding sequence of activity. His theme is the predicament; his task, reporting back accurately.' (Introduction)

1 A Response to: Moslems in Procession by Emanuel Philips Fox. 1911 i "It’s a matter of knowing when you should go – that’s the key.", Danny Gardner , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Collaboration , vol. 24 no. 2016;
1 y separately published work icon Can I tell you a secret? : Live Poets @ Don Bank Danny Gardner (editor), Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2015 9198630 2015 anthology poetry

'Welcome to Live Poets @ Don Bank (née Live Poets’ Society) at 25. Concentrating on the years 2005 to 2015, this book is as much about the venue and how it operates as it is about the poems or the poets. We hope you enjoy the secrets within…' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Can I Tell You a Secret? Danny Gardner , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2015 9071815 2015 selected work poetry

'Concentrating on the years 2005 to 2015, this book is as much about the venue and how it operates as it is about the poems or the poets. We hope you enjoy the secrets within…' (Publication summary)

1 Loose Tie i "He had a loose-fitting tie", Danny Gardner , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Latino Press 2014-;
1 y separately published work icon Brains in My Feet Danny Gardner , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2014 7906626 2014 selected work prose travel

'... These are stories born on the run, Danny Gardner on assignment or pursuing an idiosyncratic sense of challenge, inhabiting various social situations and settings with literary, artistic and sporting, even culinary, references. This is travel by foot, by car alone or with family, by bus, train and plane solo and in company across five continents over thirty-five years.' (Publication summary)

1 Love's Analergy i "Our goodbye tonight", Danny Gardner , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Five Bells , Spring vol. 17 no. 4 2010; (p. 143)
1 Untitled Danny Gardner , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Five Bells , Autumn/Winter vol. 16 no. 2/3 2009; (p. 155-156)

— Review of A Letter to Egon Kisch Tim Thorne , 2007 sequence poetry
1 Untitled Danny Gardner , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Five Bells , Autumn/Winter vol. 16 no. 2/3 2009; (p. 153-154)

— Review of A Bud Claire Gaskin , 2006 selected work poetry
1 Katherine Nativity i "after the grey-black", Danny Gardner , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Five Bells , Autumn/Winter vol. 16 no. 2/3 2009; (p. 139-140)
1 y separately published work icon 'Before I Press the Trigger' Danny Gardner , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2009 Z1579984 2009 selected work poetry
1 Harbour i "What's in a boil of water", Danny Gardner , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Ilumina : Poetry UnLimited Press Journal 2007 2007; (p. 88-89)
1 Regional Report : North Sydney Thomas Thorpe , Danny Gardner , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: Five Bells , Spring vol. 14 no. 4 2007; (p. 51-52)
1 2 y separately published work icon Light on Don Bank : Fifteen Years of Live Poets' Society Live Poets Society , Sue Hicks (editor), Danny Gardner (editor), Redfern : Live Poets' Press , 2006 Z1308224 2006 anthology poetry
1 Going Home (Or Where You Hope to Find Closure) i "Ngana! Ngaltutjara!", Danny Gardner , 2004 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Imagery and Expression , July no. 35 2004; (p. 55)
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