Gareth Morgan

Gareth Morgan is the author of When A Punk Becomes A Spunk and Dear Eileen, and co-director of Sick Leave. He is a PhD candidate at RMIT.

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Essay: Gareth Morganon concrete pools and poetry

Water Splendour

In this labile essay, Gareth Morgan plumbs the depths of the pool as a site of ritual, recreation, and the poet’s labour. From Mohenjo-daro to Carlton, Morgan recovers from the concrete history of public bathing a poetics of the ‘locus amoenus’.