Candice
I don't know about the Bono crack but the guy wrote a very interesting novel on
the British penal system and is celebrated in the Australian 'Ballad of the
Catalpa', a very singable little number.
Glen
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> Graeme and Glen: This would be the same Fenian poet who features in
> "Van Diemen's Land," a song covered by U2 on _Rattle and Hum_ (right?).
> Bono says in the liner notes that O'Reilly was deported for being such
> a bad poet, so I'd be interested to hear how you guys rate his work.
>
> Thanks--Candice
>
> >I'll have a
> >look for John Boyle O'Reilly's poem.
> >
> >It hadn't occurred to me when posting the first one that a reference to
> >dugites may be a bit esoteric for those outside Western Australia.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Graeme
> >
> >>From: Glen Phillips <[log in to unmask]>
> >>Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> >> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
> >>To: [log in to unmask]
> >>Subject: Re: bios, poems, and poetics
> >>Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:01:55 +0800
> >>
> >>Dear Graeme
> >>I must compliment you on the poems you posted. One of the first poets of
> >>any
> >>renown
> >>to write about the snakes of Western Australia was John Boyle O'Reilly, one
> >>of
> >>the Irish Fenians
> >>transported from Dartmouth prison to WA in the late 1860s. He later
> >>achieved
> >>fame in the USA
> >>as an Irish patriot and organised the escape of other Fenians from Perth.
> >>He
> >>used 'dukite' for
> >>'dugite' but the poem is quite interesting, though I prefer yours on the
> >>basis
> >>of personal
> >>experience. Your other poem has some adventurous syntactic and imagic
> >>leaps.
> >>Glen Phillips
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