Adamson and others are now minding on Facebook a new Francis Webb Appreciation Society.
It already has some interesting items on it.
Max
On 01/06/2012, at 12:12 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Actually, it's great to see Adamson taking this on, & these poets. I think he's right about Webb, who was fascinating for his time... & still...
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> Doug
> On 2012-05-29, at 11:42 PM, Max Richards wrote:
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>> Something Absolutely Splendid - Robert Adamson on Francis Webb
>> In summary:
>> 28 May 2012
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>> UTS Chair of poetry Robert Adamson will look closely at the life and work of Francis Webb in the first of a series of lecures beginning on Thursday 7 June
>> Jointly presented by UTS and the Copyright Agency Limited, the series will re-evaluate "several great poets" whose poetry has been "unjustly under-rated"
>> UTS Chair in Poetry Professor Robert Adamson will reconsider poets whose works have been "brushed aside in the onward rush of the post-modern and fashion" in a series of six lectures beginning on Thursday 7 June.
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>> The first lecture, Something Absolutely Splendid, will look closely at the life and work of Francis Webb and discuss how it came to influence Professor Adamson’s first book.
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>> "Judith Wright said that Webb wrote in a landscape of light and shadow, where his poems 'tower like whirlwinds of words', often difficult but always convincing," he said.
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>> "The poem is a medium for the life of the spirit and I will explore this concept using Francis Webb's poems as examples."
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>> Professor Adamson said that during the series he would re-evaluate several great poets whose poetry had been unjustly under-rated.
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>> "I want to look at how some of our finest poets are poets of 'derivation' as much as 'inspiration' and why these terms have become unfashionable. I will trace the ideas of reality and imagination in their poetry and what Wallace Stevens called 'The Necessary Angel'."
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