Comments on: Friday Australian poem #4: Judith Wright http://ninglun.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/friday-australian-poem-4-judith-wright/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:58:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Jim Belshaw http://ninglun.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/friday-australian-poem-4-judith-wright/#comment-14254 Jim Belshaw Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:08:36 +0000 http://ninglun.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/friday-australian-poem-4-judith-wright/#comment-14254 What a nice surprise, Richard, although I cannot put it into the right poetry. I have written a number of posts about those days long ago. Onre refers specifically to you and the help you gave me at one point. - http://belshaw.blogspot.com/2006/10/confessions-of-policy-adviser.html Where are you now? What a nice surprise, Richard, although I cannot put it into the right poetry. I have written a number of posts about those days long ago. Onre refers specifically to you and the help you gave me at one point. - http://belshaw.blogspot.com/2006/10/confessions-of-policy-adviser.html
Where are you now?

]]> By: Richard Udy http://ninglun.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/friday-australian-poem-4-judith-wright/#comment-14251 Richard Udy Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:30:34 +0000 http://ninglun.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/friday-australian-poem-4-judith-wright/#comment-14251 Must be THE James Belshaw I knew days long gone------ Seems aeons to measure But his spirit lives on! I was looking for Judith Whose poetry I love Instead came "The Promoter" Epiphany from above. Cheers Dick Must be THE James Belshaw
I knew days long gone——
Seems aeons to measure
But his spirit lives on!
I was looking for Judith
Whose poetry I love
Instead came “The Promoter”
Epiphany from above.

Cheers Dick

]]> By: Lisa http://ninglun.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/friday-australian-poem-4-judith-wright/#comment-13624 Lisa Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:39:51 +0000 http://ninglun.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/friday-australian-poem-4-judith-wright/#comment-13624 Good poems. :) (Also, I replied to your comment on my Tabulas.) Good poems. :)
(Also, I replied to your comment on my Tabulas.)

]]> By: Jim Belshaw http://ninglun.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/friday-australian-poem-4-judith-wright/#comment-13608 Jim Belshaw Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:51:39 +0000 http://ninglun.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/friday-australian-poem-4-judith-wright/#comment-13608 Neil, I was going to run this poem, and may still do so. In fact, I think that I will. Not only is the language superb, but the imagery is powerful. I can talk about some of this, have written about some of this. Take the words: "rises that tableland, high delicate outline of bony slopes wincing under the winter, low trees, blue-leaved and olive, outcropping granite – clean, lean, hungry country. The creek’s leaf-silenced" The phrase "hungry country" carries two meanings. The rounded granite boulders are a feature of hungry country. Low trees -- most tableland trees are low. Bony slopes indeed wince under winter, especially when the black frost crisp the ground. Enough. I have a meeting to prepare for! Neil, I was going to run this poem, and may still do so. In fact, I think that I will. Not only is the language superb, but the imagery is powerful. I can talk about some of this, have written about some of this.

Take the words:

“rises that tableland, high delicate outline
of bony slopes wincing under the winter,
low trees, blue-leaved and olive, outcropping granite –
clean, lean, hungry country. The creek’s leaf-silenced”

The phrase “hungry country” carries two meanings. The rounded granite boulders are a feature of hungry country. Low trees — most tableland trees are low. Bony slopes indeed wince under winter, especially when the black frost crisp the ground.

Enough. I have a meeting to prepare for!

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