Hard News: A Century Since
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
In a
manner of meaning
life is
a flurry of commas
& then
a full stop.The inbetween arguments
and agreements mean-
everything.a life sentence, even...
and ya meet some real colons
along the way, too
:- )we are the theses of our parents
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recordari, in reply to
we are the theses of our parents
bracketed and put out for marking...A+
A life history
a two minute mystery
or a love poem.Garden
back veranda
It's spring
there's Frost and light fornication in mind
with a happy ending
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Lilith __, in reply to
with a happy ending
Full stopAmen. :-)
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Kate Hannah, in reply to
oh agree re the simplification of a way of 'creating' a culture anew, by one's self, in a musuem - but I'm a sad mix of sentiment and practicality when it comes to my poetry - a bonus being that I don't have to teach it any more so can just 'like' stuff without having to justify myself .... I think my reaction to Curnow is a 16year old reaction from being that age when I first read it. And well, my Michael King sentiment stems from being his RA when he died. Nepia delivered a beautiful eulogy at Waikato's memorial service for MK, with words written by many of the staff and students who knoew him ..... perhaps my subject position is one of emotional attachment to those collections of words.
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OMG, now I'm seeing sofas EVERYWHERE!!!! The red one is nice.
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recordari, in reply to
OMG, now I'm seeing sofas EVERYWHERE!!!! The red one is nice.
Wondered when you would notice. Thanks. The physical manifestation is in my lounge.
Have couch, will travel.
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Sacha, in reply to
Wondered when you would notice
thought it was well-trimmed chin-furniture :)
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recordari, in reply to
chin-furniture
I consulted Google, and was reliable informed there's no such thing.
However, I am disappointed to note that this helpful wall chart does not include Chaise Lounge.
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James Butler, in reply to
OMG, now I'm seeing sofas EVERYWHERE!!!! The red one is nice.
Wondered when you would notice. Thanks. The physical manifestation is in my lounge.
And there I was thinking it was some kind of lightswitch.
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nzlemming, in reply to
That's what I love about PAS - you get to see some very weird shit.
#oddlycompelling #thatboyneedstherapy
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Sacha, in reply to
I consulted Google, and was reliable informed there's no such thing
yay, another first #weareonaroll
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#thatboyneedstherapy
The whole album kind of works.
another first
I'll keep serving them up, if you keep slam-dunking them.
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Lilith __, in reply to
I'll keep serving them up, if you keep slam-dunking them.
You seem to have a foot in more than one pie there, Jack. ;-)
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recordari, in reply to
Hmm, feel like I've hijacked this otherwise brilliant thread.
More Curnow, anyone?
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Lilith __, in reply to
More Curnow, anyone?
Yes! I don't know any, but would love to read what others serve up. :-)
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Leigh Davis in the Reading Room discusses Wittgenstein, Curnow, taste in poetry and a few other things besides. Lots to read, but some interesting things covered, if you have the energy. The link is to page 7, where Lone Kauri Road is covered in some detail, with sample verse.
In Lone Kauri Road these compositional ideas blow up. Time is revealed in the sheer of one process, the representation of a coastal sunset in the west, against another, the process of writing. The poem is the Big Bang in New Zealand poetry. It is the most dramatic delamination of scene and the conceptions of language set among New Zealand words. And the central reflex of the poem, that things looked at hard look back harder, with its soft connection to Nietzsche’s parable of the abyss, sets a distinctive velocity and violence in all of Curnow’s subsequent writing.
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