Candice wrote<[log in to unmask]>:-
We've just verified the
> exact number of those "Apostles" with the Victorian Tourist Commission,
> in fact, and Hugh might like to do the same before his translation is
> reprinted with its reference to "Seven Apostles": the, er, gospel
> on this disputed number (which we'd queried after being told 12, 8,
> & 7 by various OZzies) is that there were originally 12 (hence the
> "apostles"), but 4 of them having crumbled into the surf in the
> meantime, there are now only 8.
and I'd just point out that clearly the number is decreasing, and
my figure is more accurate than the '12' given by the guidebooks.
Thanks to Candice for her informative post, and to Mark Weiss
for his accidental praise (never look a gift review in the spelling!).
There's a Catullus mention within a complaint against verse novels
and a stirring of JVK in the first half of "Point Ormond, Shipless"
to be found at:-
http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket12/tolhurst.html
but visit that page of Jacket 12 for the stylish photographs of Port
Phillip Bay by Richard Briglia which accompany the poem.
Best
Hugh
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Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 3:17 AM
Subject: Re: literary politics of a complex kiss
> Hugh and other Australians may be interested to hear that the next
> issue of the _South Atlantic Quarterly_ (due out this fall) is a
> special issue entitled "After the Garden?" and guest-edited by Uni
> Melbourne political scientist Michael Crozier--a photograph of whom
> taken by myself at the "Apostles" landform site last spring will
> grace the back cover (with a gorgeous aerial photo of several
> southwest Gippsland farms on the front). We've just verified the
> exact number of those "Apostles" with the Victorian Tourist Commission,
> in fact, and Hugh might like to do the same before his translation is
> reprinted with its reference to "Seven Apostles": the, er, gospel
> on this disputed number (which we'd queried after being told 12, 8,
> & 7 by various OZzies) is that there were originally 12 (hence the
> "apostles"), but 4 of them having crumbled into the surf in the
> meantime, there are now only 8.
>
> For listees who have no idea what Hugh's "Seven Apostles" meant or
> what I'm blathering on about here: this is a stunning natural land
> formation on the east coast of the Australian continent (at Port
> Campbell, nearly the more enchantingly named Port Fairy), whereby
> 12 (as was) big, tall rocks sheared off from the coastline itself
> and were left standing alone in a line in the surf (some # of meters
> from shore that Hugh will have to provide here). What it looked like
> to me was something on the order of Stonehenge in the Surf (if ever
> there was).
>
> Candice
>
>
>
>
> Hugh Tollhurst wrote:
>
> >from "Unfaithful Translations"
> >
> >VII
> >
> >You ask how many of your worldly kisses
> >are enough for me, Lesbia, enough and more?
> >One kiss for every grain of sand swept
> >down the coast from Seven Apostles,
> >past Apollo Bay, to Point Danger;
> >a number glowing like southern skies
> >in points to star your eyes below midnight,
> >the dashboard legend of illicit miles:
> >to find your lips as many times
> >might quiet Tolhurst's madness:
> >no barman could squeeze the measure,
> >no satellite eavesdrop the amount.
> >
> >
> >
> >Hugh Tolhurst
> >
> >
> >reprinted with permission from
> >Filth and Other Poems (Black Pepper 1997)
> >403 St Georges Road North Fitzroy
> >Victoria 3068 Australia
> >
> >soon to be reprinted (January 2001)
> >in Catullus in English
> >ed Julia Haig Gaisser
> >(Harmondsworth UK: Penguin Classics, 2001)
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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