Thank you very much Jo Anne, and for
the benefit of all, I'd like to say that while the entire
suite of "Horse Lyrics" (nine poems) is reprinted soon
in the Minter/Brennan anthology
Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets
there's almost certainly heaps of good stuff
by younger/newer Australian poets many of them
poetryetc listmembers.
As its a Paper Bark Press/Craftsman House
co-publication, it enjoys international distribution,
so is more readily available to most than my Filth
and Other Poems (Black Pepper) is.
The editors can correct me, but I think it's
available November.
cheers
Hugh Tolhurst
PS There may also be a recorded version available soon,
with the Dirty Three instrumental music that inspired the suite,
but I'll announce that when I know more.
----- Original Message -----
From: Denton, Jo Anne <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: A poem on suicide by a contemporary youth
> Just wanted to thank you for sharing this. I really enjoyed it very much.
It
> told the "green" truth with a wry sense of humor and irony. Funny mental
> images even with such a sad and sober subject.. I say, Bravo. JoDe
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "Hugh Tolhurst" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 6:33 PM
> Subject: A poem on suicide by a contemporary youth
>
>
> > from "Horse Lyrics"
> >
> >
> > 7. Instrumental
> >
> >
> > all kids think of suicide
> > like all kids think sleeping pills
> > might win you a day off school
> > for me there was dying under green trees
> > buried in the spring you know
> > the green would die greenly.
> >
> > the impossibility of it
> > doesn't occur to you as a teenager,
> > the impossibility of few things
> > will occur before you first lose your head
> > over someone now less than special
> > but not worth the blame.
> >
> > too old to top yourself
> > because friends are wise to you
> > & you are wise enough to yourself
> > to leave it to latin lovers in ludicrous
> > Almodovar films, or Japanese couples
> > with wilder kitchen utensils
> >
> > drinking yourself to death
> > has more advantages than most methods;
> > in my green dreams of park suicide
> > I don't remember what the instrument was
> > but the grass was lush & jolly
> > & the bottles were red
> >
> >
> >
> > Hugh Tolhurst
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > from Filth and Other Poems
> > (Nth Fitzroy: Black Pepper, 1997)
> >
> > this suite soon to be reprinted in full in
> > Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets,
> > edited by Peter Minter and Michael Brennan
> > (Brooklyn NSW, Paper Bark, 2000)
> >
>
>
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