Tuesday 24th November 2009 \u2014 Travelled over to Victoria with Jane on the weekend, to the Castlemaine readings run by Ross Donlon at the Guildford pub. Caught up with Robyn Rowland again, she invited us to stay with her in Ireland some time if our visits coincide, \u2018I rent a lovely little cottage on Ireland\u2019s west coast, overlooking the sea \u2013 for three months at a time,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n
Ross runs a good poetry event. Sixty-five or seventy people in attendance, not easy to secure a seat.<\/p>\n
Listened to an open section of eight poets [good poems too] as well as the launch of a chapbook from BN Oakman and a reading by Robyn Rowland. <\/p>\n
Ross habitually reads a couple of poems to introduce the reading \u2026 one, on this occasion, a poem about hens by Sarah Day, a recent guest to Castlemaine \u2026 it struck a chord, (I\u2019d visited friends not long ago, really took to their four gorgeously plumed hens who are destined to die of old age: they\u2019re doted on by the family\u2019s children who view them as pets so they\u2019ll never reach the cooking pot) \u2026 Sarah presents powerful images, but (more than that) does so with integrity, walks the talk<\/p>\n
BN Oakman\u2019s full of energy, witty, humble. \u2018If there\u2019s one thing a reader appreciates, it\u2019s a good listener. You\u2019ve been that this afternoon, thank you.\u2019 Robyn Rowland \u2013 particularly enjoyed the poems where the personal came to the fore, one poem spoke of the weight of depression, the relief once it\u2019d been lifted. [More to the point, as she added with humour, what to do with all that energy once the weight of depression had lifted]. Also presented was some moving poetry on her relationship with her mother. I\u2019d not heard Robyn read before \u2014 thoroughly absorbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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