Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Preface
- Foreword By John Lucas
- Prologue
- To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- On the Right Side of the Earth
- We meet at last
- I've been wanting to ask …
- Dear Mr Simpson
- Taking things in
- A Bummer
- Swanport
- And for the Record
- Fax from Launceston to Michael
- A Hasty Rejoinder
- Something you can't deny
- The Interview
- In Mount Field National Park
- News of a Death
- On the Answering Machine
- In Flowerdale
- Hadn't we the Gaiety?
- About as far as we can go
- Your art Mrs Meredith
- The Princess Theatre, Launceston, 18th October, 1995
- Threads
- Journal entry for Tuesday, 31st Oct.
- Dangerous I know
- A Poem for Wybalenna Chapel
- Making an Exhibition
- A Last Glimpse
- Epilogue
- Melbourne Central Cemetery
- Select Bibliography
Fax from Launceston to Michael
from On the Right Side of the Earth
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Preface
- Foreword By John Lucas
- Prologue
- To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- On the Right Side of the Earth
- We meet at last
- I've been wanting to ask …
- Dear Mr Simpson
- Taking things in
- A Bummer
- Swanport
- And for the Record
- Fax from Launceston to Michael
- A Hasty Rejoinder
- Something you can't deny
- The Interview
- In Mount Field National Park
- News of a Death
- On the Answering Machine
- In Flowerdale
- Hadn't we the Gaiety?
- About as far as we can go
- Your art Mrs Meredith
- The Princess Theatre, Launceston, 18th October, 1995
- Threads
- Journal entry for Tuesday, 31st Oct.
- Dangerous I know
- A Poem for Wybalenna Chapel
- Making an Exhibition
- A Last Glimpse
- Epilogue
- Melbourne Central Cemetery
- Select Bibliography
Summary
He's at it again, the wise guy
on ABC Classic FM: an Overture
of Veracini's is music played
‘at the point of a sword’;
he just loves it ‘when Schumann
lets his horns out to graze.’
Now he wants to put some
‘steroids’ into the broadcast
with Rachmaninov's Second
Symphony.
You'd be at home
with such irreverence.
Grainger's
Molly on the Shore ‘sounds like
she's driving towards a village
in a tank’; Schubert's Ninth
is ‘the Big One, that'll take up
the lunch hour!’ And, wait for it,
‘this is J. S. Bach placing
your wake-up call’ with Wachet Auf.
There are things I'm trying not to miss.
It's one of the raining days …
cars more urgent on King's Bridge,
as if home's the best place now.
The South Esk River's lost its sheen …
except there, in the shelter of the arch,
one perfect stroke of gloss.
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- Cutting the Clouds Towards , pp. 35Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999