499 Comments and Counting!
As if the excitement of reaching 1000 posts wasn’t enough, now I’ve gone and got myself all shook up over what I calculate will soon by the 500th comment on this site (or the agglomeration of sites which is now…
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May 2008
We Don’t Usually Tell …
the sun that he does well to shine & shines well … the moon that she illuminates the lover’s skin the stars that they remind us of all things past the sky that it does well to rain on our…
Jethro’s Whitman Cabinet
” … a cabinet was specially made. O’Dowd’s wife Evangeline had an uncle, Jethro Fryer, a carpenter who took on this task. SANDRA BURT i hammer nails & saw wood (to make his house of whitman his shadow cabinet not…
“I Hate Myself & Want to Die”
I believe Fame once intended to give birth to a child. Some accident happened and I was the abortion. B. O’D. I look at what i wrote & feel shame rising like the flood my knees are weak & the…
Cute
"... the cute and loving appreciation of my book and me by them in Australia has gone right to my heart."
—Walt Whitman, writing to Bernard O'Dowd
This poem was first published online in Blackbox Manifold (UK) and later in print in Best Australian Poems (Black Inc, 2011).
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The First Letter
I am not going to praise your poetry to you B. O’D. BUT! you make the leaves & the grasses speak for themselves! great scald of demos i am yours! master bending down to meh! like a tree of man…
Sunbathing
This poem first appeared in Overland (2008) and was anthologized in Thirty Australian Poets (UQP, 2011).
Words From the 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…
Remembering Shelton Lea
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…