Hi Alison,
Well, most importantly, I just finished The Riddle last night and am anxious
and itchin' to know when we'll be seeing the next installment. I even read the
appendices just to string it out.
Am now starting on Gwynneth Jones's 'Divine Endurance'.
I hope Aus poetry isn't too heavy duty at the moment. That list sounds like a
big task, even excusing self-interest. I haven't had time lately for such a
catch-up. Agree with you about Chris's mis-translation of Mallarme. A definite
hoot, I heard him read from it using visuals, and great typesetting as you'd
expect from Chris.
Cheers,
Jill
>I've been doing some heavy-duty reading of Australian poetry. Recently read
>and recommend:
>John Kinsella: Doppler Effect (all his small press poems, some great stuff
>in there, though it's a fantasy-size doorstopper)
>Morgan Yasbincek: Firelick
>MTC Cronin: <More or Less Than > 1-100
>Phillip Hammial: Swan Song
>Samuel Wagan Watson: smoke encrypted whispers
>David Brooks: Walking to Point Clear
>Jill Jones: Broken/Open
>Chris Edwards: A Fluke: A Mistranslation of Stephane Mallarme's "Un Coup de
>Des" (sorry about the lack of accents) is a hoot.
>Philip Norton: Excerpts from Teach Yourself Atomic Physics , with pop art
>collages by Barnaldo Whelan - lot of fun, though not much to do with
>physics.
>
>Best
>
>A
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