Ultra Soundings

Like travellers from fabled lands, voices come telling tales, sometimes shocking, sometimes familiar, sometimes magnetic, like echoes, like ultra soundings...


Duncan Richardson’s poetry can be fanciful like this but also grounded. A speaker softens the terror of his son observing a sabre-toothed tiger in a museum. Another hears a Siren urging him to jump from Victoria Falls.


Join in his discovery of ghosts in everyday highrises..

Duncan Richardson writes prose and poetry for children and adults.


His previous IP title was Jason Chen and the Time Banana. His verse play The Grammar of Deception was broadcast on ABC Radio National in 2008.


He lives in Brisbane where he conducts writing workshops. Previous children’s books include Wennabees and Yum-worms and Revenge.