Sunny Blundell-Wignall is grateful to live and write on Nyoongar Boodja, having grown up in the Walyalup/Fremantle area where he still lives. He began writing poetry in 2000 when frequenting Smashmouth and New Word Order poetry clubs. After a break, he re-engaged via the Perth Poetry Club in 2012 and completed a Diploma in Creative Writing at Curtin Uni in 2014, where he engaged in a poetry of place research project under the tutorage of Dr Maureen Gibbons.
During 2020/21 Sunny participated in the Emerging Poets Program via the ever-supportive WA Poets Inc and under the auspices of the Department of Culture and the Arts. Sunny’s poems explore questions of place and environment, history and colonisation, connection/disconnection, belonging and the body.
Sunny is published in the Emerging Poets Anthology: Becoming Known (2020), Poetry d’Amour 2013, the ekphrastic poetry anthology Creative Connections 2015-2021, online poetry zine Recoil #6, Recoil 10, and the upcoming Poetry for the Planet Anthology. He has been a guest reader at Perth Poetry Club and Voice Box.
Beautiful poem 🙂
Thanks for your kind comment Clare. We’ll convey this to the poet!