Thanks for the recommendation of 'Under the Net'.
I re-read the article. I thought it pertinent to Iris Murdoch
because of her move from the CP to the centre of politics.
What will interest Australians are the closing remarks about
the Aborigines being denied their rightful place in society
because of their not being brought up bi-cultural and hence
illiterate and unable to hold a job in the modern society.
And this from a previous SEnior Lecturer in Anthropology
at Sydney University.
And speaking of Sydney I re-read John Tranter's 'Late Night Radio'
this afternoon as a counterbalance to my reading of Kathleen Jamie's
new Selected followed by Jizzen. John TRanter is a brilliant writer
but as I said some years ago in Lynx this book is ephemaral and the
poems vanish from the mind the moment the book is laid down. In
short it is pretty poor poetry but TRanter can write a good proper
poem because I have read them in magazines.
But could Frederick please explain the importance of the review
of Roger SAndall's 'The Culture Cult' in the TLS. I have been
avoiding the thread on 'bush poetry' because it is bogged down
in detail but I presume it must be relevant.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
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