Corowa is actually in NSW but only a stone's throw from Vic (near
Rutherglen). 68 years ago I was born in Vic and Melbourne is the closest
capital city by far. (No pun intended.) Where are you, Bill?
Andrew
On 25 October 2012 11:12, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Welcome to Victoria (again?) Andrew. As I recall it, there are seven pubs
> in Corowa. Sing out when you've worked your way through them. Not all on
> the one night I hope.
>
> Lyrics would work well for fun. First stanza needs work, particularly, in
> mine too I know.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
> On 25/10/2012, at 11:06 AM, Andrew Burke wrote:
>
> > Great fun. If I only had time ... (I'd probably do song lyrics.) Andrew
> >
> > On 25 October 2012 02:43, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Snapping at all those poets, I think, Bill.
> >>
> >> A lot of finders-keepers work there...
> >>
> >> Doug
> >> On 2012-10-23, at 2:33 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Not really a snap, I suppose. Snapped together perhaps?
> >>>
> >>> Found Cento
> >>>
> >>> My silence seemed the lapse of a decade.
> >>> Mr Fotheringham's white china teapot.
> >>> The art of losing isn't hard to master.
> >>> But this happened the day be fore yesterday.
> >>> Finding is losing something else.
> >>>
> >>> It's always ourselves we find in the sea.
> >>> And each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds.
> >>> One day she left without a word. She took away the sun.
> >>> The greatest griefs shall find themselves inside the smallest cage.
> >>> Finding is losing something else.
> >>>
> >>> What is the boy now, who lost his ball,
> >>> A ball to be thrown. These feet, deprived,
> >>> Something has ceased to come along with me.
> >>> The sea rushes at sand castles begging to be knocked flat.
> >>> Finding is losing something else.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 1. Gregory Corso
> >>> 2. Peter Bakowski
> >>> 3. Elizabeth Bishop
> >>> 4. Raymond Carver
> >>> 5. Richard Brautigan
> >>>
> >>> 6. e e cummings
> >>> 7. Wilfred Owen
> >>> 8. anon. (Lemon Tree)
> >>> 9. D J Enright
> >>> 10. Richard Brautigan
> >>>
> >>> 11. John Berryman
> >>> 12. Ted Hughes
> >>> 13. John Silkin
> >>> 14. Kevin Brophy
> >>> 15. Richard Brautigan
> >>>
> >>
> >> Douglas Barbour
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >>
> >> Latest books:
> >> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
> >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
> >> Wednesdays'
> >>
> >>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
> >>
> >> Transforming once reasonable human beings into gullible idiots is one of
> >> the biggest businesses we have.
> >>
> >> Charles Simic
> >>
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> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > 'Undercover of Lightness'
> > http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
> > 'Shikibu Shuffle'
> >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
> >
>
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Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
'Shikibu Shuffle'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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