Stories from the Studio: Harry Laing

This week we’re talking to Harry Laing! Harry is a poet, children’s author, creative writing teacher and comic performer who lives and works at Geebung, his property near Braidwood

Harry generously invited us into his writng hut, where he has worked on his soon to be published book of poetry Time of Fire, scheduled to be released later this year in July! Harry previously published three books of poetry; Thirst (1993), Backbone (2010) and Unsettled (2021), and three children’s books, Shoctopus – poems to grip you (2015), MoonFish (2019) and RapperBee – poems to give you a buzz (2021)

Harry says he gets his ideas from all over the place. “That’s the wonderful thing about poems, they can come from anywhere. And mine do. For instance, I like to challenge myself to write about everyday objects and make them interesting”