I 'm relatively sure Bill Anderson is a regular contributor to
http://www.newsweekly.com.au/ that progressive journal of the National Civic
Council.
Caleb
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes, two of mine too. I just went cross-eyed when I read what the blog
> was saying, soberly debating whether poetry ought to rhyme or not.
> Rundle isn't a literary figure, he's a political commentator, but
> judging by these two pieces, he knows more about contemporary
> Australian poetry than the editor of the ALR.
>
> Fresh off the back of a stimulating debate about cross-racial casting
> in Australian theatre, which maybe accounts for my depressed response.
> (It even made it to the Guardian today,
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2009/aug/06/birthday-party-australia
> , with the usual colonialist condescension - aargh).
>
> xA
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Douglas Barbour<[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > Ah, but the blogger, whoeever he is, included in that list two I'd stand
> by,
> > Neilson & Slessor, of that older school, that is.
> >
> > And it does, alas, come down to taste. I see some agreed with Rundle
> about
> > the boring qualities of the James piece.
> >
> > The old academic was sad, though.
> >
> > And the usual lack of knowledge about so many fine poets in Oz, unnamed
> > because unknown?
> >
> > Doug
> > On 6-Aug-09, at 6:17 AM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> >
> >> I guess Guy Rundle has sparked what passes for public debate on poetry
> >> here. It's unbelievably depressing. Anyway, the Australian blog has
> >> replied to Mr Rundle, and now people are talking about how great Henry
> >> Lawson and Banjo Paterson are. I can't bring myself to comment, which
> >> perhaps says everything since I am such a loudmouth. But it's just
> >> toxic and sad.
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >
> > Latest books:
> > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> > Wednesdays'
> >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
> >
> > There are as many fools in the world as there are people.
> >
> > Sigmund Freud
> >
>
>
>
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