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Doug
On 19-Feb-09, at 10:44 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> I interviewed Bill Hart-Smith in his anecdotage in Auckland, but
> don't recall
> something I should know about.
>
> I mentioned him to my writing group the other evening, along with
> Roland
> Robinson, as two English-born Australian writers who believed there
> was one
> great way of becoming authentically Australian:
> going into things Aboriginal.
> They weren't immediately enthused.
>
> best from Max
>
> Quoting andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>:
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>> A Bill Hart-Smith moment.
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>> 2009/2/20 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
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>>> An old friend in poetry emails me:
>>>
>>> In a dream the other week I was writing a poem that came together
>>> as if I
>>> were taking dictation - such a pleasure to have something shape
>>> itself with
>>> such assurance. So then I published my new poem - only to have
>>> people write
>>> and tell me I was misrepresenting it as new work, when I'd
>>> published almost
>>> exactly the same poem 30 years ago! So then I knew why the words
>>> had come
>>> so
>>> readily to hand...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Andrew
>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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