I've started to ro learn to play the harmonica.
On 8/26/05, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> As a frustrated
> musician - one of my early choices was which creative strand to follow
> - I often pour my ear into poetry. I'll have to get Mayakovsky's book.
>
> Roger
>
>
> Yes, yes, do. It's a little Cape Edition - well, my edition is. Probably
> published elsewhere, of course.
>
> Funny you should emtnion your 'frustrated musician' story. Same here. I was
> a drummer as a youth for a very short while. I have found that the majority
> of Australian poets have at least tried playing music sometime in their life
> ... interestingly enough, not Les Murray (but his wife's a huge opera fan).
> Tom Shapcott, Geoff Page, Fay Zwicky, Dorothy Hewett ... on and on.
> Interesting.
>
> Any other frustrated, or even unfrustrated, musos who have become poets out
> there?
>
> Andrew the Little Drummer Boy
>
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