Dear Glen,
Thanks for your comments on the poems. Glad you liked them. 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
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>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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