I don’t think I have, Andrew. My connection with OzPo has fallen off since my last trip there.
Any on line?
Webb’s incredible Water and Light, her collection of what she called anti-ghazals, is one of our great books (but then she is one of our great poets, with, finally, Peacock Blue: The Collected Poems (Talonbooks) a few years ago).
Doug
> On Sep 14, 2016, at 5:49 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Have you seen any of Andy Jackson's ghazals? Very good.
>
> I like this set too.
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> & Webb's.
>
>
> Andrew
>
> On 15 September 2016 at 02:48, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> those three thousand names
>> still read aloud each year
>>
>> who could count the leaves
>> turned colour on this given day
>>
>> these words that count
>> to whom do they belong
>>
>> counting the days years
>> video mourning carries on
>>
>> how many bodies burn / burnt
>> buried on their broken knees in Persia now
>>
>>
>>
>> (you will note below where some of this came from)
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> [log in to unmask]
>> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>>
>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
>> 2 (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>
>> Four or five couplets trying to dance
>> into Persia. Who dances in Persia now?
>>
>> A magic carpet, a prayer mat, red.
>> A knocked off head of somebody on her broken knees.
>>
>> Phyllis Webb
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> Books available through Walleah Press
> http://walleahpress.com.au
Douglas Barbour
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https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Four or five couplets trying to dance
into Persia. Who dances in Persia now?
A magic carpet, a prayer mat, red.
A knocked off head of somebody on her broken knees.
Phyllis Webb
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