Wow - really?!
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Caleb Cluff<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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