Thanks, Andrew.
Judy
2009/2/20 andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
> Max wrote, in part,
> >Les Murray, who is
> so into the ecology of his world he can register the language of birds
> beasts
> and flowers, even bats.<
>
> Tom Shapcott, prolific Australia poet, anthologist and novelist, once came
> to my home in the hills outside of Perth and, as we walked around the acre
> block, he named every tree, shrub and plant and every bird which twittered
> and flew within range. When I sounded impressed with his great knonwledge,
> he said, "When I was a young man and decided to be a poet I learnt all the
> names in nature's kingdom as my duty." (He could have equally been a
> composer, btw.)
>
> Sadly, to this day, I am deficient when it comes to such naming. Sadly, I
> don't own that house anymore.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> 2009/2/21 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Yes, Doug, or jindyworohalfbaking...
> >
> > It was another narrow furrow, but Judith Wright joined in a bit on her
> way
> > up
> > and out.
> >
> > I spared my nonreading writers the big 'J' term, but warned them that
> next
> > week
> > I would introduce them to the encyclopedic living omnivore, Les Murray,
> who
> > is
> > so into the ecology of his world he can register the language of birds
> > beasts
> > and flowers, even bats.
> >
> > Max
> >
> > Quoting Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> > > Jindyworobaking!
> > >
> > > Had its day, eh.
> > >
> > > 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]>:
> > > >
> > > >> A Bill Hart-Smith moment.
> > > >>
> > > >> 2009/2/20 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >>
> > > >>> 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...
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >>> This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://
> > > >>> www.netspace.net.au
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> Andrew
> > > >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------
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> > > >
> > >
> > > Douglas Barbour
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/
> >
> > >
> > > Latest books:
> > > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> > > Wednesdays'
> > > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-
> > press_10.html<
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-%0Apress_10.html
> >
> > >
> > > It's always night or we wouldn't need light.
> > >
> > > Thelonious Monk
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
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