Thanks again, Doug, for enriching my Les cache.
This is the best thing that has come my way if you have time to go into it.
Explains a little, if not to your or probably my satisfaction, some of his
odd political leanings.
Bill
https://ramonakoval.com/2019/04/30/les-murray-poet-7-10-38-29-04-19/
On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 1:58 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> He had lots of such stories, Bill, & a generous spirit, although the
> conservatism of his views & religion was something a lot of poets & readers
> who loved the work couldn’t really understand or accept, me among them. I
> first met him in 1984 on my first visit to Oz, introduced by a fellow poet
> who had moved back to Oz from Canada. We shared a bottle of set, I think it
> was, talked poetry (& agreed to disagree about which modern poets we most
> admired) & other things, & exchanged books. I suspect mine resides
> somewhere on his shelves, possibly still unread; our poetics were very
> different. I taught his work on my Australian & New Zealand poetry
> courses.He came to Canada back in 2009, I think, & gave a fine reading to a
> full house here in Edmonton.
>
> Doug
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> > On Apr 30, 2019, at 6:16 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Good on you, Doug. I never met him but own two of his collections. He
> told
> > this tragic story apparently a while back at the Adelaide Writers’
> Festival.
> >
> > His father always favoured Les’s older brother to take over the family
> > farm. They were out clearing a paddock and came across a huge dead
> gumtree
> > which dad insisted on pushing over. Les said it was rotten and dangerous,
> > don’t do it, but Dad insisted. The tree split, killed the brother and
> Dad
> > always blamed Les for it.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 7:21 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
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> >> A huge loss of a huge talent (& man). I met him few times, once in Oz,
> He
> >> did love that ‘sprawl’…
> >>
> >> Doug
> >>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
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> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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> We live in a world of suffering in which evil is rampant, a world whose
> events do not confirm our Being, a world that has to be resisted. Is is in
> this situation that the aesthetic moment offers hope, that we find a
> crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more
> deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead
> us to believe…The energy of one’s perception become inseparable from the
> energy of creation.
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