Benjamin Laird, 'Weather in Ferny Creek'


“Weather in Ferny Creek is an electronic poem inspired by the Ferny Creek weather station. It comprises three sections that draw on the current weather, plants, and animals observed in the station’s surroundings to produce the lines of poetry.”
– Benjamin Laird
Benjamin Laird is a Naarm-based software engineer and poet who grew up in Kallista. His print and electronic poetry have been published in various journals. His longer works include the digital chapbook The Durham Poems, part of a series of poems on William Denton, a nineteenth-century spiritualist, scientific lecturer, and radical.