Poetics
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Haiku workshops, Turtlefest
Thanks John for the wonderful workshop. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed it . . .
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Inspiration on the loo
Creativity is a common catch-phrase and not just in the world of arts and letters. We all want to be…
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If you say you don’t like poetry
I ask you which sort. It's like saying I don't like music.
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Letter to an older poet
In the first of his Letters to a Young Poet, the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke demanded the poet pay…
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Happy Birthday Banjo . . . but
Lawson died a broken alcoholic, Banjo is on the $10 note and his mythologising of the bush has only recently…
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RIP Seamus Heaney 31 Aug
I was at an intimate reading Heaney gave at Sydney University probably in the early 90s, His voice was poetry,…
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Poetry Competitions
Poetry Competitions August 15 I know they are a lottery but one with better odds than Keno.
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The Diversity of Poems
The Diversity of Poems Poets are always keen to maintain poetry as special (‘making special’ is how Martha Nussbaum characterises…
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Finding Keats
Finding Keats I’m standing in the room where Keats died, I saw his death mask and a print of Fournier’s…
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