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
Your art Mrs Meredith
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
was one long act
of praise
a bit like
my telling students
to allow themselves
astonishments
and then
articulate them
yes I know
about Buddha's
Flower Sermon
and haiku only needing
the recognition of a smile
I know too
William Carlos Williams’
I wanted to write a poem
that you would understand
for what good is it tome
if you don't understand it
but you've got to try hard
you believed that God
wrote beautiful poetry
and Nature was his poem
certainly here in Tasmania
you could say he was
at his most Baroque
what with Eucalyptus Regnans
flame robins, blue wrens
wombats and the rest
you loved the flowers most
articulated them
for all to contemplate
consider plate 5's
simple prayer
Blue Gum
and Comesperma Volubile
also known as Love
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- Cutting the Clouds Towards , pp. 49 - 50Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999