Argentina was home for Australian singer-songwriter, Stu Larsen, during the final month of his year-long encounter with Solitude. If you’ve been following this series of posts, you’ll know his project involved spending each month of 2024 in a different location – and writing a new song in each place. Stu posted videos of the songs… Read More Stu Larsen: Solitude, Argentina
Eleven months into his self-imposed year of solitude, Stu Larsen was in the USA. With his project of writing a new song in a different location each month drawing to a close, Stu chose to stay in one of his favourite places: California. November 2024 This time, he was living in a cottage on the… Read More Stu Larsen: Solitude, USA
After three months in Europe, Stu Larsen relocated to Canada for the month of October 2024. This was the singer/songwriter’s tenth home on his year long search for Solitude. October 2024 Stu spent the month at Mariposa Farm in Ontario. His cabin was small with no running water or electricity. As the days grew colder,… Read More Stu Larsen: Solitude, Canada
Having spent time in Austria and Germany, Stu Larsen’s third European location was Tuscany, Italy. Spending each month of 2024 in a different place, Stu was engaged on a year-long pursuit of Solitude. September 2024 His home for September was a cottage known as Casalino, buried in a forested area of eastern Tuscany, close to… Read More Stu Larsen: Solitude, Italy
Edition 4 of Catchment: Poetry of Place was released in June 2025. The online journal publishes tanka and longer forms of poetry relating to locations within Australia and elsewhere. Edition 4 included a poem of mine about Central Park in New York City. Central Park needs no introduction, having featured in countless movies including Breakfast… Read More Central Park, New York City
Stu Larsen’s next stop on his year-long pilgrimage in search of Solitude was Germany. Moving from the west of Austria in July 2024, this month Stu landed in the west of Germany, close to the border with Belgium. August 2024 Stu stayed in a converted farm building set among fields, ponds and meadows. And once… Read More Stu Larsen: Solitude, Germany
During 2024, Stu wrote a new song in a different place each month. The project was a study of Solitude as the homes and cottages in which he stayed were chosen for their out of the way settings. Stu Larsen’s seventh stay of his year-long odyssey took him to Europe. More specifically, to a location… Read More Stu Larsen: Solitude, Austria
tea: all the time it takes is an anthology of haiku about drinking tea. The collection is edited by artist and poet, Denise Fontaine-Pincince, who also provided the cover art. The book title is itself a haiku, written by Sondra J. Byrnes. Drinking tea and writing haiku are activities that originated in Asia and have… Read More tea: all the time it takes
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