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From: "cooee" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 12:31 PM
Subject: S Purcell
> on 23/4/05 7:21 PM, Douglas Clark at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> From my 'Two
>> poems for Sally Purcell'.
>>
>> 1. Again
>>
>> In Intensive Care
>> As I realised that I was going to live
>> I wrote a note to my surgeon:
>>
>> `Why did you save my life?
>> Now I will have to go back home
>> And suffer once again.'
>>
>> I don't want to live
>> And
>> I don't want to die.
>
> Dear Doug,
>
> Touched.
> Do say why 'for Sally Purcell', and perhaps what became of her...
>
> Max Richards, Melbourne
>
The two poems were written in 1998 the night after her Commemoration Service
(is that right?) in the traditional Catholic church in Oxford with the full
Latin liturgy. A very boring event then we went to the pub.
Sally's poetry was a special taste, she wrote them like snowflakes, but she
was much appreciated and a Collected Poems has been published by Anvil. I
dont think she will ever be forgotten among poetry people. I wanted to put
up a subset on my website but couldnt get thru to her executors for
permission.
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