Thanks, Bill and Doug. I'm enjoying writing a poem a day for a project with
others at 365+1 a blog at http://project365plus.blogspot.com.au/
I heard that track So What on YouTube for those who may be interested.
Andrew
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On 19 February 2016 at 03:17, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes, got that sense of knowing a solo after hearing it so often, yet, a
> good jazz listener, & I assume yule been one for one time, gets that feel
> for new ones too. I like the connection to the walks. I remember a somewhat
> different Christchurch I suspect, but it was oh so walkable, & neatly laid
> out…
>
> Doug
> > On Feb 17, 2016, at 6:24 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > They'd be pretty shaky seeds in Christchurch these days wouldn't they,
> > Andrew. How's the quake situation now? Like your connection with
> > music/familiarity/tramping. Whoops, better watch it, In NZ, tramping
> means
> > something more specific doesn't it, more hiking I think, off-road.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Thursday, 18 February 2016, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Miles and Coltrane playing in Stockholm
> >> enlivens a wet Christchurch afternoon
> >> and I come to the realization I knew
> >> what Trane was going to play next.
> >> It was at this point that I knew
> >> two days of prowling the city
> >> had taught me the pattern of streets,
> >> the beat of our feet connecting
> >> to the sight of the eyes and
> >> the frontal lobes. All this
> >> connectivity part of writing -
> >> but as Ezra Pound told WS Merwin,
> >> *Read seeds, not twigs.*
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andrew
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
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> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> Done in by creation itself.
>
> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>
> Robert Kroetsch.
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Andrew
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