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On 6 November 2014 11:58, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yep. very fine. Those rhs especially. Andrew
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> On 6 November 2014 10:06, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Stunning Wright poem, Max. New to me.
>>
>> Bill
>>
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>> > On 6 Nov 2014, at 7:30 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Judith Wright: Train Journey
>> >
>> > Glassed with cold sleep and dazzled by the moon,
>> > out of the confused hammering dark of the train
>> > I looked and saw under the moon's cold sheet
>> > your delicate dry breasts, country that built my heart;
>> >
>> > and the small trees on their uncoloured slope
>> > like poetry moved, articulate and sharp
>> > and purposeful under the great dry flight of air,
>> > under the crosswise currents of wind and star.
>> >
>> > Clench down your strength, box-tree and ironbark.
>> > Break with your violent root the virgin rock.
>> > Draw from the flying dark its breath of dew
>> > till the unliving come to life in you.
>> >
>> > Be over the blind rock a skin of sense,
>> > under the barren height a slender dance...
>> > I woke and saw the dark small trees that burn
>> > suddenly into flowers more lovely that the white moon.
>> >
>> >
>> >> On Nov 6, 2014, at 7:23 AM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Max, a quick perusal of reviews indicates it's not merely British
>> >> poems and songs about trains. Some of the songs include the obvious,
>> >> The Midnight Special, and something from the magnificence of Flanders
>> >> and Swann. I do hope they included one of my favourite Judith Wright
>> >> poems, 'The Trains', an early poem of hers written during WWII, 'the
>> >> trains go north with guns'.
>> >> J
>> >> ________________________Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
>> >> To:
>> >> Cc:
>> >> Sent:Thu, 6 Nov 2014 07:11:21 +1100
>> >> Subject:Re: Snap The Dance
>> >>
>> >> I haven't, Max. Thanks for the alert.
>> >> Cheers,Jill
>> >> ________________________Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
>> >> To:
>> >> Cc:
>> >> Sent:Thu, 6 Nov 2014 07:06:35 +1100
>> >> Subject:Re: Snap The Dance
>> >>
>> >> anybody seen this book yet? -
>> >>
>> >> Train Songs edited by Sean O'Brien and Don Paterson ...
>> >> www.theguardian.com › Arts › Books › Poetry
>> >> The Guardian
>> >> Nov 1, 2013 - As serendipity would have it, Sean O'Brien and Don
>> >> Paterson have placed "The Railway Children" first in Train Songs. For
>> >> some, in our ...
>> >> Train Songs: An Anthology: Don Paterson, Sean O'Brien ...
>> >> www.amazon.com/Train-Songs-Anthology../0571217761
>> >> Amazon.com
>> >> Train Songs: An Anthology [Don Paterson, Sean O'Brien] on Amazon.com.
>> >> * FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This is the night mail
>> >> crossing
>> >> the border, ...
>> >> Book review: Train Songs, Edited by Sean O'Brien and Don ...
>> >> www.independent.co.uk › Arts + Ents › Books › Reviews
>> >> The Independent
>> >> Nov 1, 2013 - Why a poetry anthology based around trains and train
>> >> travel? Because, its editors Sean O'Brien and Don Paterson explain,
>> >> there is no ...
>> >>
>> >>> On Nov 6, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Good to hear you share my feeling about them. The Stockholm
>> >>> underground (tunnelbana) isn't as extensive as classic networks
>> >> such
>> >>> as the Parisian metro, there are only three lines plus another set
>> >> of
>> >>> commuter lines, but my journeys on it are quite long getting to the
>> >>> uni, and it is certainly packed at most times.
>> >>> In Adelaide I did not use a train for year; the system is not big
>> >>> either, but I am so glad now our house in Adelaide is on a train
>> >> line.
>> >>> It feels as if my world is right again.
>> >>>
>> >>> ________________________Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
>> >>>
>> >>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
>> >>> To:
>> >>> Cc:
>> >>> Sent:Wed, 5 Nov 2014 12:47:02 -0700
>> >>> Subject:Re: Snap The Dance
>> >>>
>> >>> I absolutely love trains, Jill, and feel that in such motion there
>> >> is
>> >>> a
>> >>> release that brings about a great opening for creating. You've done
>> >> a
>> >>> gorgeous job here.
>> >>>
>> >>>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Jill Jones wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Many thanks, Sheila. There is something about the moments and
>> >>> movement
>> >>>> of trains, especially underground systems. Coupled with the fact
>> >> of
>> >>>> signs advertising a new production of Strindberg's Dance of Death.
>> >>>> Which could be worth getting a ticket for, except it is in
>> >> Swedish.
>> >>>> Jill
>> >>>> ________________________Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
>> >>>> To:
>> >>>> Cc:
>> >>>> Sent:Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:35:26 -0700
>> >>>> Subject:Re: Snap The Dance
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Jill, I find this moving as a moment in time that encompasses all
>> >>>> tenses.
>> >>>> Thank you for this. Lovely. Sheila
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> THE DANCE
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Minutes hover in trains, everything is
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> a forecast from an old future
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> the new one is still variable in the making
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> a misremembered song from the past
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> the girl opposite is nodding her dreamy head
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> ‘you are receiving from the year’ of your birth
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> of your death, dying on trains while
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> the ordnings vakt guys stand by preserving
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> old acts of impurity in the name you clean with
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> among the tall houses on the east side
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> everyone watches to see what kind of soul
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> emerges, grey answers, double delicious
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> is it about amnesty, painted rainbows
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> reading suspended clocks on the red line
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> the dödsdansen around the doors
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> ________________________
>> >>>>> Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
>> >
>>
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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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