Brian Purcell Brian Purcell is a widely-published poet, and was lead singer of the cult 80s-90s band Distant Locust. He also founded the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival in 2010. Brian is also a painter, creating collages and visual poems which illustrated his first book of lyrics and poems, Lovely Infestation. He is working towards his first solo exhibition, The Day on Fire , and his first book with Flying Islands. Construction Site Breathing like an infernal machine that waits for me limbs now diagonal horizontal, vertical all movements of ease acrobatical the goblins are digging up the streets ...