"Les Murray writing of
Martin Johnston's To the Innate Island:-
"It's wonderfully rich, evocative and vivacious, but I
fear
you've left the poetry out"
Les can keep his poetry!
I prefer Martin Johnston any day
Could Les Murray ever give a poem a title like 'The
Blood Aquarium'????
Or how about
"On Zeeland shore a whale rots, waiting for Durer"
That's worth the complete works of Murray, Heaney (the
Murray of Ireland, with all that implies?) and the
rest of the 21st century patoralist nationalists.
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My apologies for misremembering and for
mispelling. If anyone at poetryetc can help me
with this, I'm pretty sure it's an article by Gig
Ryan,
in the form of a memoir of Martin Johnston
which mentions (or speculates on) Martin's
personal feelings over Les Murray writing of
Martin Johnston's To the Innate Island:-
"It's wonderfully rich, evocative and vivacious, but I
fear
you've left the poetry out"
My thinking is the Gig Ryan piece was either
in a Scripsi or a HEAT?
Can anyone provide the relevant quote from
Gig Ryan? It's not something I can find in my
pile of Scripsis and HEATs. I'd very much
appreciate the assistance.
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"Why is it not possible for me to doubt that I have never been on the moon? And how
could I try to doubt it? First and foremost, the supposition that perhaps I have
been there would strike me as idle. Nothing would follow from it, nothing be
explained by it. It would not tie in with anything in my life... Philosophical
problems occur when language goes on holiday. We must not separate ideas from life,
we must not be misled by the appearances of sentences: we must investigate the
application of words in individual language-games" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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