Article Archive for May 2008
Posted in Poems, Secret Lives of the Colonial Poets on 14 May 2008
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will only say that your your hint re sunbaths
has saved meh many a day’s illness
B. O’D.
i shall take sunbaths & eat stone fruit from the goulburn valley
reading your lines again my beloved my only one my sun for you
i shall compose letters lines verses song cycles people will eat
oranges & know that you [...]
Posted in Poems, Secret Lives of the Colonial Poets on 13 May 2008
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Master?
Revered master
Dear Walt, my beloved master, my friend,
my bard my prophet and apostle –
Dear Bernard
My dear master!
Your good, long varied and loving letter
came yesterday and has been welcome and nourishing to meh.
My dear master!
I cannot reply properly,
we have been treading air since.
Dear Bernard O’Dowd (and all the friends)
My dear master!
[...]
Posted in Fiction, Publishing News, Reviews on 12 May 2008
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My review of Diana Georgeff’s Delinquent Angel, a biography of Melbourne poet and raconteur Shelton Lea, has been published in the latest issue of Overland (#190). Interestingly, the editors have decided to put most (if not all) of the contents of the issue online, so you can now read the review in its entirety! Here’s [...]
Posted in Poems, Secret Lives of the Colonial Poets on 9 May 2008
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revered master
dear walt, my beloved master, my friend,
my bard my prophet and apostle
my dear master
my dear master
my dear master
my dear master and (may I say?) comrade
my dear master
my dear master
B. O’D.
Posted in Poems, Secret Lives of the Colonial Poets on 7 May 2008
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I am 24, red hair, plain features,
and a little too backward for my own good.
B. O’D.
24yo dawn-red hair western districts oz poet seeks 80ish
NS/SD amerikan dusky-grey hair ex-civil war nurse poet
for inter-continental correspondences & hero worship -
must heart ozpo philo/sci-fi &/or long walks on beach
FYI both parents RC father policeman lonely child etc.
must possess GSOH [...]
Posted in Photos, Secret Lives of the Colonial Poets on 1 May 2008
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Abandoned houses, Barellan Australia (2008).
