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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 4 weeks ago: Is that confusing enough for you? Peter Skrzynecki’s “Immigrants at Central Station, 1951” was the s … more →
March of the Pumpkins
LeAnne Howe wrote 1 month ago: In these last beautiful days of autumn, I came upon a conference of pumpkins, orange, pink, yellow-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 →
Indian Territory Art House, a work in progess
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LeAnne Howe wrote 2 months ago: Now that fall is just around the corner, I’m happy to report that the Indian Territory Art Hou … 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 →
I love you so much
3w09 wrote 3 months ago: State of Grace: Leonard Cohen’s Return We watch him on Canadian television, cheekily telling … 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 →
June review catch-up 3 -- “Sylvia” (2004)
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Neil wrote 5 months ago: I watched this partly out of HSC-related duty, but also out of interest. I have to say I was … more →
Shakespeare Hotel: Rabbit and Sirdan
Neil wrote 5 months ago: That is the company at Sunday Lunch; the menu you may divine from the plates. As generous a $10 wort … 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 →
Roads taken and not taken
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Neil wrote 6 months ago: Off shortly to my fortnightly appointment with Dr C. The title of course refers to the much loved Ro … 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 →
Perhaps I’ll write another Kubla Khan…
Neil wrote 6 months ago: We all know the story… In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sac … more →
Friday poem #10 – Elizabeth Bishop 1911-1979
Neil wrote 7 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 →
Bury My Heart at Wal-Mart 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 →
