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AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS & WRITERS FOR PEACE
ya alim by Geoff Fox

[Above] Photo of Geoff Fox by Pamela Sidney, year unknown.

Geoff Fox

ya alim

They know who they're hunting

   but they don't know him.

They know how they're hurting

   in the rubble of their greed.



They know who they blame

   for their losses in the game

where their hollywood of stunting

   & their manhattan of blowing

& their washington of blunting

   the world they web in greed

has got them all mcveighed



They can't execute

    their own blind need.

ya alim - invocation of The Knowing

About the Poet Geoff Fox

Geoff Fox is a Melbourne performance poet in love with the best of Indonesia. For 7 years he has focussed on the work of Indonesian women poets, performing with singers at many Melbourne venues including Monsalvat, Chapel off Chapel and Revolver. People with whom Geoff has performed include: Amien Rais (current chairman of the parliamentary body which elects Indonesia's president and which impeached Wahid), Neno Warisman (who sang to Miterrand and Reagan when they visited Indonesia), Arief Budiman (professor of Indonesian studies at melbourne university), Tim Costello (president of the Australian Baptist Union), Robert Mate Mate (who was an indigenous story teller from Queensland) and Peter Neville (a percussionist who has toured with the Electric Light Orchestra and Elton John). His poems have been published in Australia in Overland, Mattoid, Northern Perspective, Fremantle Arts Review and others, in New Zealand in Spin, In the UK in the Global Tapestry journal and in America in the California Quarterly and Northland Review. Geoff Fox's epigrammated drawings have also been published in Overland and Northern Perspective and Mattoid. Geoff is currently focussing poetically on work kicked off by asmaulhusna - the 99 sufi names for the object of worship. He meets his economic needs as a midwife.
   [Above] Photo of Geoff Fox by Pamela Sidney, year unknown.

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