>Hi Doug
>
>Unfortunately I never saw her read. I was turned onto her work many
>years ago by a fellow poet and managed to track down a selected - the
>only one of hers that's ever been available here. I feel I should try
>and find more. But thanks for the Hawken tip as well. There's a lot of
>NZ poets who don't get their due either but am sure DH of maxgate can
>say more on this.
>
Ha, Jill
you'd have to go to talonbooks website (I'm sure they have one) which now
carry some of her other books. We need a Collected, but Phyllis has been
holding out (the originator of this venue, John Kinsella, having read the
Selected oevrnight at my place, once said, we've got to do a Collected,
Doug, & I certainly agreed, but...). That Selected you found would have
been one of the ferw that were sent over the time she came to the Adelaide
festival. But it's too bad you missed her -- she's one of he great readers
of our time....
Hawken, as she says, also found her work 'useful':
as this excerpt from one of the poems in her book shows:
Thrush, tui -- which is the more mellifluous?
A word I learned from Phyllis Webb.
'Drunken and amatory, illogical, stoned, mellifluous
journey of the ten lines.' If I could sing
like you, like her, tui, like spring water and
far off a rock falling.
Dinah Hawken
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
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Shakespeare
Drag yr mouldy old bones
up these stairs & tell me
what you died of,
I think
I've got it
too.
Sharon Thesen
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