Not quite that spirit…
Doug
On 2012-08-26, at 3:32 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The crasher
> Date
> August 10, 2012
> Sacha Molitoritz
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> Read later
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> Break out the bongos and berets - poetry is back big-time.For people who like to get out and about, these are thrilling times. It's a big call, but I'm prepared to make it: never has there been a more dynamic period for entertainment. Culturally, this is as good as it gets.
> One word - poetry. The early adopters know it: poetry will be to the summer of 2012-13 what pump-up basketball boots were to the summer of 1990-91. Maybe more.
> On a recent Sunday afternoon, I visited the Friend in Hand Pub in Glebe for the launch of a book titled Collusion. Its author is Brook Emery but I know him better as Mr Emery.
> He was my English teacher at high school, and I think he invited me to ease his conscience. As far as I can tell, it's his main career regret that one of his pupils went on to become a journalist.
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> ''Present, sir,'' I replied.
> As far as pubs go, the Friend in Hand is like an outback hotel plonked incongruously in the heart of Sydney.
> It has comedy nights, crab racing and a cockatoo in a cage. It has meat raffles and a No Names restaurant.
> And it has poetry events. The Friend in Hand is to poets what Rome's Colosseum was to lions. A place where verse can roar.
> The launch was held upstairs, amid the comfy couches and slanted sunlight, where an attentive crowd of more than 100 celebrated wordplay. ''Make Poetry History'', said a T-shirt.
> The climax was Emery's reading. There was imagery. There was alliteration. There was onomatopoeia. It had been a long time since I'd thought about onomatopoeia. Such a remarkable thing. More than any word I know, it comes closest to including every vowel in one syllable.
> The stanzas washed over me in beautiful, melancholy waves.
> ''I suppose we're all the same, every now and then suspect the world might be communal story, syntax the ship we sail from Serendib to Sydney.''
> Later, I bought a copy and showed my wife. ''Look,'' I said. ''Brook's book!''
> Some days I swear I'm inhabited by the spirit of T.S. Eliot.
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> Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/about-town/the-crasher-20120809-23v7d.html#ixzz24dvP7hXF
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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