I actually like your poetry. I think the disappointment is mine, the
expectations mine. Maybe it's my false expectations of what migrant
poets should be doing is my undoing. I had some thoughts that a new
country would mean forward looking, beavering into the future, yet
your statements about poetics, and possibly your poetry although I'll
have to look at that more closer - don't seem to be doing this,
although I'm happy to admit a mis-judgement on my part. Do you sing
the settler's lament? Or is your song the wild colonial boy?
Roger
On 12/15/05, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 15/12/05 8:51 PM, "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >>> I hear you taking traditions come as you please, given the freedoms
> >>> you say you have. I just don't see it in operation
> >
> > "in your poetry or attitude".
>
> Hmm. I am not sure if I am Australian, I'm not naturalised - though if I'm
> not Australian I am certainly not English; mine is a migrant experience
> (which many would argue is the quintessential European Australian
> experience), I have, on the other hand, been condemned more than once for my
> eclecticism. Traditions that have influenced me strongly include of course
> European 20C and Romantic writing; also South American writing.
>
> But it seems odd to talk about my work this way. It is not my business what
> other people think of it; part of the freedom of poetry is, indeed, the
> freedom to dislike it.
>
> Cheers
>
> A
>
>
> Alison Croggon
>
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> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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