Yes, passed into the metaphor of woods and swamps
worldwide,
John Anderson who wrote the line,
was a fine Melbourne poet.
The forest set out like the night 1995
is the major work by all accounts
The Shadow's Keep 1997
is a book I really like too, however
(both are Black Pepper publications).
John was a very lovely guy
who died suddenly in 1997
shortly after the publication
of the Shadow's Keep from
sudden onset of leukaemia, (at 49 I think).
My last conversation with him before
he fell ill, was as he rang his publishers
(I was briefly in charge as they were in Frankfurt)
to report that he liked the cover, from a phone box
in the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia.
A landscape poet,
he was researching Australian gullies at the time.
Best
Hugh Tolhurst
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Lovely <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 9:51 PM
Subject: re: Limberlost
> On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 17:41:21 -0600
> "Lucy Chandler Brandt" <[log in to unmask]>wrote
>
> >I read the book, _Girl of the Limberlost_ as a small girl, and if
> memory
> >serves, the Limberlost was a swamp.
>
> I knew I wasn't imagining things. Thank you, Lucy
>
> &
>
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 02:28:59 +0100
> "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>wrote
>
>
>
> >At the turn of the century, the Limberlost Swamp was described as a
> >"treacherous swamp and quagmire, filled with every plant, animal and
> >human danger known -- in the worst of such locations in the central
> states."
>
>
>
> Thanks for that, Robin. So I suppose, by association, it could come to
> mean any such place, real or metaphysical. There is something about the
> sound and rhythm of the word that seems to suggest that, anyhow.
>
> Dave
>
>
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