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Friday Australian poem #17: Bruce Dawe, "Homecoming"
Years ago I had a student just beginning Year 12 at a Jewish school north of Sydney; Bruce Dawe’s poetry was our first mission. Over the Christmas holidays (well, that’s what I’d cal… more →
Floating Life 4/06 ~ 11/07
Memories
Rusty wrote 1 month ago: A man rakes leaves into a heap in his yard, a pile, & leans on his rake & burns them utterly … more →
Poetry Week: The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot
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rosyb wrote 6 months ago: There has been so much written about The Waste Land – where do I even start? I could talk about the … more →
Scratch a lover...
Rusty wrote 9 months ago: There’s little to have but the things I had, There’s little to bear but the things I bor … more →
Progress?
Rusty wrote 10 months ago: ” with an Apple Macintosh you can’t run Radio Shack programs in its disc drive. nor can … more →
Australian poem 2008 series #15 — John Shaw Neilson "The Orange Tree"
Neil wrote 1 year ago: Perhaps recent events have brought this poem to mind… John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942) is one of … more →
Friday Australian poem #17: Bruce Dawe, "Homecoming"
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: Years ago I had a student just beginning Year 12 at a Jewish school north of Sydney; Bruce Dawe … more →
Friday Australian poem #15: Les Murray, "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow"
Neil wrote 2 years ago: This is a poem that has grown with me as I have read and reread it over the past thirty years and mo … more →
A Selection of Kitten Verse by Oliver Herford
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Clattery MacHinery wrote 2 years ago: _____ Oliver Herford was born in Sheffield, England in 1863 and m … more →
Friday Australian poem #12a
Neil wrote 2 years ago: We couldn’t have a #13, could we? In fact if you check “Men in Green” again y … more →
Friday Australian poem #12: David Campbell "Men in Green"
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Neil wrote 2 years ago: This poem is literally the same age as I am, having been first published in The Bulletin in 1943. Da … more →
Friday Australian poem #11: "Because" by James McAuley
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Neil wrote 2 years ago: James Phillip McAuley (1917-1976) is, as you may see from that article, still something of a Ri … more →
Friday Australian poem #8: Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971)
Neil wrote 2 years ago: Reading aloud this moving elegy on a dead friend and colleague of Slessor — Joe Lynch, who fel … more →
Friday Australian Poem #5: Judith Wright "For a Pastoral Family"
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Neil wrote 2 years ago: This poem is in the 1985 collection Phantom Dwelling, in a section labelled “Poems 1979-1980 … more →
Friday Australian poem #4: Judith Wright
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Neil wrote 2 years ago: This poem has been a favourite of mine for over forty years. It brings back nights by a roaring fire … more →
Decline of Australian Literature revisited
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Neil wrote 2 years ago: Jim Belshaw has posted again today on the “decline” in Australian literature. Note … more →
The Long-Awaited, Unabating, Top 30 All-Time Greatest Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Clattery MacHinery wrote 2 years ago: _____ Below is a countdown of the top 30 poems written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was born in Dayt … more →
The Official Top 20 Countdown of the All Time Greatest Love Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Clattery MacHinery wrote 2 years ago: _____ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) with a friend I have been reading … more →
Reading the Bible
Neil wrote 2 years ago: To quote the appropriate page for today from Deng Ming-Dao’s 365 Tao: Daily Meditations: Don … more →
Poetry's Decline?
Neil wrote 2 years ago: Maybe, maybe not. Jim Belshaw and I share a love for Judith Wright’s poetry. My mother, who … more →
