"I'm going to do one more poem - is that alright? - it's called 'Fireflies'. I wrote this because one of the joys of this job - if you call it a job, being a poet - is that you get to work a lot with kids, you know, disadvantaged kids, I get to do that around Victoria and NSW a lot and I wrote this poem for my students. Another thing to note about this actually - this is going to sound like the most wanky, pretentious name-drop ever: and it is! - but Russell Crowe contacted me about this poem, which is bizarre and I like to boast about that because it's not every day The Gladiator himself tells you that he likes your poetry. Anyway...."

"She said, as a child I lived in the mountains.... "

Omar Musa: Tasmanian Poetry Festival, October 2012