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http://www.themonthly.com.au just noticed in their e-newsletter. Max "The way [Les Murray] can register, in words nobody else would quite choose, a perception nobody else could quite have, is at the centre of his art, ensuring almost infallibly that a poem will work like a lucky charm for as long as he pours in the images ... Murray sees the things of this world mis à nu, like Baudelaire's heart. The charm is infinite because the universe goes on forever, and he would have something unique to say about every bit of it if he could go on sailing long enough through its eternity of transparencies." In "Nobel Calling", Clive James meditates upon the subtlety and resonance of the poetry of Les Murray as he reviews his new collection, Taller When Prone. James suggests that Murray's ability to grab and enthral us with a combination of immediacy and dynamism - his ability to traverse the places and themes of the world in an essentially universal language - should have paved the way to Stockholm for him. Oh I might do better to follow up the below...- SLOWTV Muhammad Yunus: The Grameen Bank and abolishing poverty http://www.themonthly.com.au/muhammad-yunus-grameen-bank-and-abolishing-poverty- 2348 Professor Muhammad Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983, fuelled by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right. Beginning by loaning $27 to a group of impoverished women in Bangladesh, Yunus went on to set up the Grameen Bank, thereby lifting millions out of poverty by disbursing $6.6 billion in loans to the poor. This simple idea has grown into an international movement. Replicas of the Grameen Bank model operate in more than 100 countries worldwide. In 2006 Professor Yunus and the Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In this Melbourne Conversations event, Yunus talks about the conception and growth of the bank and posits that we can put an end to poverty within this generation by channelling the market forces of capitalism. Visit SlowTV to view a wide range of intelligent talks online. http://www.slowtv.com.au/ ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au