Wednesday, October 26, 2011

what I learnt as a writer in residence part two

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We talk about poetry in ways that are not only different to other arts, but which are detrimental to poems. I’ve never heard anyone say “Mu...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Steve said: "Bert Jansch Is dead".

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We were tuning up, and I said, don't be stupid, that's not remotely funny.... But he is. Dead. So I never met the man but I've b...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

What I learnt as a writer in residence part one

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I was standing in a classroom, looking at the unfamiliar faces. Nothing new there, I’ve been doing this for twenty five years. I know the d...
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Sunday, September 4, 2011

What is a poem?

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‘Poetry is a verdict not an occupation’ or in the words of Pierre Bourdieu (1993. P.35): ‘The work of art is an object which exists as such ...
Monday, August 15, 2011

"Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances" by R.F.Foster.

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I think one could fairly describe R.F. Foster's output as prodigious. The amount of reading that must have gone into his two volume bio...
Friday, August 5, 2011

The Australian National Poetry symposium: Free advice on how to be a poetry evangelist.

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How to be a poetry evangelist, or an evangelist for Poetry General Rules 1) Discuss Poetry, or Contemporary poetry: an idealized abstrac...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Bunting, Persian, and Davis' 'Shahnameh'.

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I’m reading Dick Davis’ translation of the Shahnameh. Partly because it is the subject of one of my favorite Bunting stories, partly to find...