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1Bushwhacked
apr 1, 2014, 7:59 am

What's your favourite Australia Poem? Share a line from it with us!

2shawjonathan
Bewerkt: apr 1, 2014, 7:20 pm

'Are gestures stars in sacred dishevelment,
The tiny, the pitiable,, meaningless and rare
As a girl beleaguered by rain and her yellow hair?'
from Francis Webb. "Wild Honey"

3Bushwhacked
apr 16, 2014, 5:21 am

I keep coming back and reading this, shawjonathan, there's something about it, and I am sure I have never read any Francis Webb before... Admittedly it is over two decades since I last seriously read any poetry, way back as an undergraduate student, but I cannot recall ever having encountered his name or his writing before...

4shawjonathan
apr 28, 2014, 2:13 am

He is a 'difficult' poet, ajmlibrary. I first read him 40 or so years ago, and there are many lines, rhythms, and images that have stayed with me. 'Wild Honey' is one of the extraordinary poems in 'Ward Two', a sequence written in psychiatric hospital.

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