Thanks, Doug. There was a bit of everyday strangeness for me, and
thinking through ideas of 'the future'. The poster for the Strindberg
play was a gift.
Adelaide, too, being a flat desert city (until you get to the hills)
is mainly a car driving city. I don't drive so I always become much
acquainted with public transport (I too got Max's reference, but
didn't get around to saying anything, it is one of my favourite Frost
poems). Trains are good for writing on, better than buses, smoother
for one thing.
J
________________________Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
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Sent:Thu, 6 Nov 2014 10:28:19 -0700
Subject:Re: train poem
All these train poems makes sense now; I missed your fine poem relier
Jill. I got the sense of alienation there, on a different track so to
speak. And just the odd newness in oldness of travelling so. On the
plains here, with our wide cities, (& a very small underground), we
tend to drive, or take buses I guess; not the same at all. I first
thought of actual trains, also more used & older in Europe, & which
were so fine to travel by…
Doug
On Nov 6, 2014, at 1:05 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Enjoyed cheers-dazzling moon was briefly challenged by fireworks
last night on my train
> Trees bursting into flowers!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
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> Sent: 06 November 2014 00:58
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> Yep. very fine. Those rhs especially. Andrew
>
> On 6 November 2014 10:06, Bill Wootton wrote:
>
>> Stunning Wright poem, Max. New to me.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>> On 6 Nov 2014, at 7:30 am, Max Richards wrote:
>>>
>>> Judith Wright: Train Journey
>>>
>>> Glassed with cold sleep and dazzled by the moon, out of the
confused
>>> hammering dark of the train I looked and saw under the moon's
cold
>>> sheet your delicate dry breasts, country that built my heart;
>>>
>>> and the small trees on their uncoloured slope like poetry moved,
>>> articulate and sharp and purposeful under the great dry flight of
>>> air, under the crosswise currents of wind and star.
>>>
>>> Clench down your strength, box-tree and ironbark.
>>> Break with your violent root the virgin rock.
>>> Draw from the flying dark its breath of dew till the unliving
come
>>> to life in you.
>>>
>>> Be over the blind rock a skin of sense, under the barren height a
>>> slender dance...
>>> I woke and saw the dark small trees that burn suddenly into
flowers
>>> more lovely that the white moon.
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Nov 6, 2014, at 7:23 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Max, a quick perusal of reviews indicates it's not merely
British
>>>> poems and songs about trains. Some of the songs include the
>>>> obvious, The Midnight Special, and something from the
magnificence
>>>> of Flanders and Swann. I do hope they included one of my
favourite
>>>> Judith Wright poems, 'The Trains', an early poem of hers written
>>>> during WWII, 'the trains go north with guns'.
>>>> J
>>>> ________________________Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
>>>> To:
>>>> Cc:
>>>> Sent:Thu, 6 Nov 2014 07:11:21 +1100
>>>> Subject:Re: Snap The Dance
>>>>
>>>> I haven't, Max. Thanks for the alert.
>>>> Cheers,Jill
>>>> ________________________Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
>>>> To:
>>>> Cc:
>>>> Sent:Thu, 6 Nov 2014 07:06:35 +1100
>>>> Subject:Re: Snap The Dance
>>>>
>>>> anybody seen this book yet? -
>>>>
>>>> Train Songs edited by Sean O'Brien and Don Paterson ...
>>>> www.theguardian.com Arts Books Poetry The Guardian Nov 1,
>>>> 2013 - As serendipity would have it, Sean O'Brien and Don
Paterson
>>>> have placed "The Railway Children" first in Train Songs. For
some,
>>>> in our ...
>>>> Train Songs: An Anthology: Don Paterson, Sean O'Brien ...
>>>> www.amazon.com/Train-Songs-Anthology../0571217761
>>>> Amazon.com
>>>> Train Songs: An Anthology [Don Paterson, Sean O'Brien] on
Amazon.com.
>>>> * FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This is the night mail
>>>> crossing the border, ...
>>>> Book review: Train Songs, Edited by Sean O'Brien and Don ...
>>>> www.independent.co.uk Arts + Ents Books Reviews The
>>>> Independent Nov 1, 2013 - Why a poetry anthology based around
>>>> trains and train travel? Because, its editors Sean O'Brien and
Don
>>>> Paterson explain, there is no ...
>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 6, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Good to hear you share my feeling about them. The Stockholm
>>>>> underground (tunnelbana) isn't as extensive as classic networks
>>>> such
>>>>> as the Parisian metro, there are only three lines plus another
set
>>>> of
>>>>> commuter lines, but my journeys on it are quite long getting to
>>>>> the uni, and it is certainly packed at most times.
>>>>> In Adelaide I did not use a train for year; the system is not
big
>>>>> either, but I am so glad now our house in Adelaide is on a
train
>>>> line.
>>>>> It feels as if my world is right again.
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
>>>>> To:
>>>>> Cc:
>>>>> Sent:Wed, 5 Nov 2014 12:47:02 -0700
>>>>> Subject:Re: Snap The Dance
>>>>>
>>>>> I absolutely love trains, Jill, and feel that in such motion
there
>>>> is
>>>>> a
>>>>> release that brings about a great opening for creating. You've
>>>>> done
>>>> a
>>>>> gorgeous job here.
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Jill Jones wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many thanks, Sheila There is something about the moments and
>>>>> movement
>>>>>> of trains, especially underground systems. Coupled with the
fact
>>>> of
>>>>>> signs advertising a new production of Strindberg's Dance of
Death.
>>>>>> Which could be worth getting a ticket for, except it is in
>>>> Swedish.
>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>> ________________________Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
>>>>>> To:
>>>>>> Cc:
>>>>>> Sent:Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:35:26 -0700
>>>>>> Subject:Re: Snap The Dance
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jill, I find this moving as a moment in time that encompasses
all
>>>>>> tenses.
>>>>>> Thank you for this. Lovely. Sheila
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> THE DANCE
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Minutes hover in trains, everything is
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> a forecast from an old future
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the new one is still variable in the making
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> a misremembered song from the past
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the girl opposite is nodding her dreamy head
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> you are receiving from the year of your birth
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> of your death, dying on trains while
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the ordnings vakt guys stand by preserving
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> old acts of impurity in the name you clean with
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> among the tall houses on the east side
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> everyone watches to see what kind of soul
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> emerges, grey answers, double delicious
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> is it about amnesty, painted rainbows
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> reading suspended clocks on the red line
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the d dsdansen around the doors
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ________________________
>>>>>>> Jill Jones www.jilljones.com.au
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
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