Reading a new poem daily — working my way through a few Robert Adamson poems at the beginning of ‘Contemporary Australian Poetry’. Love the way I come back to these poems with some sort of relish, appreciating his vision, his ‘association with the dead (writers)’ (my italics), his writing of experiences (ie driving his boat…
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thinking aloud
Spent a lovely evening with Anne and Giles last night, fed a meal of fish and salad and gem melon. Giles enthused about the artist Klimt, and Hieronymous Bosch, and showed me his book on Peter Bruegel the Elder, I mentioned the painting I came across last week — Bruegel’s ‘The blind leading the blind’,…
Minsk
Valzhyna Mort, in an interview, characterises the people of Belarussia as having undergone much, and being a non-aggressive people, basically. And it clicked — what might have caused the people of Minsk to be so non-belligerent? What part of her history can this be attributed to? To the USSR, since 1917? Or much earlier? Is…
thinking aloud
Went along to the AGM of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival last night. I didn’t nominate for the committee, and I’m glad I didn’t cos there were more nominees (6) than vacancies (4).
thinking aloud
Managed to put up issue four of Communion two or three days ago, good to have had some feedback. Included a couple of interviews – one with Philomena van Risjwick, which I enjoyed a great deal, she had some good things to say about writing and music – the other with Rebecca Kylie Law, an…
Thinking aloud
Went round to visit Jane, she told me a story about how the one of the MC’s at the festival – a young woman – introduced her as ‘Mister’, then – recovering – as ‘Missus’ … causing Jane to completely drop the running order of her poems and to begin with her poem called ‘Missus’….