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highways and life on the
road have inspired artists.
OR
IDEAL F PING!
So it shouldn’t come as a
CAM
surprise that those people
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who spend the most time
travelling - truck drivers -
are creatively inclined too.
This month will see the
release of Dust Poems, an
anthology with contri-
butions from three profes-
sional poets as well as more
than a dozen truck drivers.
The publisher, Red Room
Company’s Johanna Feath-
erstone, developed the book
to tap into the rich vein of Life’s highways: Austinmer’s Lindsay Tuggle, who contrib-
creativity among the truck- uted to the new anthology Dust Poems. Picture: KIRK GILMOUR
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a call for contributors. about the lives affected by and plenty of time to muse
Austinmer poet Lindsay the transport of those on it, fostered their creative
Tuggle was one of the trio of things,’’ Tuggle said. drive and a knowledge of
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