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I witnessed Les Murray read his poetry in Washington DC, either at the Folger Shakespeare Library or the Library of Congress. Two separate readings at the LC, on the bill with other Australian writers. One of these, with David Malouf and curated/introduced by that year's "consultant in poetry", William Meredith, can be heard but not seen via: https://www.loc.gov/item/91740808/ Barry On Wed, 1 May 2019 12:12:15 +1000, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >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 >> >> > 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: >> > >> >> A huge loss of a huge talent (& man). I met him few times, once in Oz, >> He >> >> did love that ‘sprawl’… >> >> >> >> Doug >> >> >> >> Douglas Barbour >> [log in to unmask] >> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ >> >> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations >> 2 (UofAPress). >> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). >> Listen. If (UofAPress): >> >> >> 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. >> >> – John Berger >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ######################################################################## ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1