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Sunday Floating Life photo 33 AND Friday poem 18
Is that confusing enough for you? Peter Skrzynecki’s “Immigrants at Central Station, 1951” was the subject of my tuition session yesterday. The coachee is doing the ESL course in English. On my way I … more →
Floating Life
Sunday Floating Life photo 33 AND Friday poem 18
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Neil wrote 3 weeks ago: Is that confusing enough for you? Peter Skrzynecki’s “Immigrants at Central Station, 1951” was the s … more →
Friday poem 17: Judith Wright
Neil wrote 2 months ago: Australia 1970 Die, wild country, like the eaglehawk, dangerous till the last breath’s gone, c … more →
Friday poem 16: W B Yeats “When you are old and grey…”
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Neil wrote 2 months ago: A lovely classic, but also a classic put-down in its way. When you are old and grey and full of slee … more →
Friday poem 15 & For the fifty million dead — 2: W H Auden
Neil wrote 2 months ago: It has to be at this time seventy years later: W H Auden’s “September 1 1939”. Auden and Isherwood s … more →
Friday poem 13: Emily Dickinson
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Neil wrote 5 months ago: There’s a certain slant of light There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That … more →
Friday poem # 12 – Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
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Neil wrote 6 months ago: Some treasures! A bit different today! The videos I found for a coachee studying Ted Hughes, Birthda … more →
Friday poem #11 – D H Lawrence
Neil wrote 6 months ago: This is prompted by a recent post from Thomas. We’ve all felt this way at times. Lawrence (of Lady C … more →
Friday poem #10 – Elizabeth Bishop 1911-1979
Neil wrote 6 months ago: This US poet is much admired by Australian poets like Robert Gray. Suicide of a Moderate Dictator by … more →
Friday poem #9: Isaac Rosenberg 1890-1918
Neil wrote 7 months ago: Break of Day in the Trenches The darkness crumbles away. It is the same old druid Time as ever, Only … more →
Friday poem #8 – Donald Justice
Neil wrote 7 months ago: Donald Justice (1925 – 2004) was an American poet. Men at Forty Men at forty Learn to close softly T … more →
Friday poem #7 – Ben Jonson
Neil wrote 8 months ago: Not Ben Jonson, but William Shakespeare That portrait of William Shakespeare came to light recently. … more →
Friday poem #6 – A E Housman “On Wenlock Edge”
Neil wrote 8 months ago: Bit of a classic today. You may find a generous selection of Housman’s work here together with links … more →
Friday poem #5 – from Thylazine – Michelle Cahill
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Neil wrote 9 months ago: Today we go back to Oz Poetry and forward to some newer voices, courtesy of Thylazine and their TWEL … more →
Friday poem 2009 #4 – Poetry on 3 Quarks Daily
Neil wrote 9 months ago: I will also be referencing 3 Quarks Daily in the next post! You’ll have also noted regular items lin … more →
Friday poem 2009 #3 – Robert Frost “Design”
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Neil wrote 10 months ago: Not unrelated to the last two posts! Robert Frost – Design I found a dimpled spider, fat and w … more →
Friday poem 2009 #2: perhaps the shortest ever!
Neil wrote 10 months ago: From the site Poets Against War. let freedom ring it would be nice if it did ring, but it doesn … more →
They forget that what's here isn't life
weinberg wrote 10 months ago: The Joy of Writing Why does this written doe bound through these written woods? For a drink of writt … more →
Friday poem: 2009 #1 – Pablo Neruda
Neil wrote 10 months ago: This does seem apt. I found it on iPeace. PRAYERS FOR THE EARTH For once on the face of the earth le … more →
friday, you know what that means.
weinberg wrote 11 months ago: THEOLOGY No, the serpent did not seduce Eve to the apple. All that’s simply Corruption of the … more →
