I join the prayer, Lawrence, from the same place…
Doug
On 2013-01-07, at 12:15 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From Melbourne and nearby which has powerful memories of January fires and loss of life, Tasmania has been looking tragic.
> So far as I know no one we know has suffered.
>
> A few years ago Margaret Scott (1934 - 2005), an Englishwoman who settled in Tasmania and wrote poems and fiction and was a loved teacher,
> retired from Hobart to the country where her house a few years later was destroyed by wildfire.
> She lived after that only a few years.
>
> The Baby Farmer (1990)
> The Black Swans (1988)
> Changing Countries : on moving from one island to another (2000)
> Collected Poems (2000)
> Convict Trail : Tasman Peninsula and Port Arthur (2000?)
> Family Album : a novel of secrets and memories (2000)
> In the shadows [previously published as The Baby Farmer] 2001
> Port Arthur : a story of strength and courage (1997)
> Tricks of Memory : poems (1980)
> "Uneasy Eden" : peace and conflict in a rural community [pamphlet] (1997)
> Visited (1983)
> Margaret's poetry has been featured in a number of anthologies including:
> The best Australian poetry 2004 (2004) Effects of light: the poetry of Tasmania (1985) New music: an anthology of contemporary Australian Poetry (2001) River of Verse: A Tasmanian Journey 1800-2004 (2004) A writer's Tasmania. Vol.1 (2000)
>
>
> On 08/01/2013, at 2:43 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>> Hi (No one)
>>
>> We used to have active members in Tasmania. I'm not sure we do now.
>> If there is any one reading there, just thought I'd say how sorry I am
>> about the fires! If you are caught up in fires, then it's unlikely
>> you'll be reading this; I am still sorry.
>>
>> I have been meaning to say that and getting distracted by
>> trivialities -- Icarus falling from the sky and the ploughman
>> ploughing...
>>
>> Recent weather in USA and in Russia has been negatively impressive
>> and I still manage to moan about rain and overcast. It's been mild in
>> S E Britain. We'll pay for that when the farmers find that nothing we
>> regard as nasty has been killed off; but that'll be then. We're not
>> thinking much about that now; and still we're moaning. I am. Much of
>> my country has been flooded and I live on a chalk hill
>>
>> So, anyway, may the fires stop (Prayer of the godless)
>>
>> L
>>
>
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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