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Monday, March 27, 2017
'OOROO' by Richard Tipping INVITATION
Sunday, March 26, 2017
STOP ADANI
The Adani mine is this generation's Franklin River. People power can stop it
This is the environmental issue of our times and the Great Barrier Reef is at stake. But people standing up for what they believe in has unbeatable power
When I rafted the Franklin in the 1970s, I knew the campaign to save that spectacular river, despite local support for damming it, would become one to test that generation. In 2017, stopping the Adani coal mine is a campaign to test this generation of Australians.
In 40 years time people will be talking about the campaign to stop Adani like they now talk about the Franklin. “Where were you and what did you do?” they will ask.
READ THE FULL TEXT AT https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/24/the-adani-mine-is-this-generations-franklin-river-people-power-can-stop-it?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+AUS+v1+-+AUS+morning+mail+callout&utm_term=218982&subid=7413251&CMP=ema_632
In 40 years time people will be talking about the campaign to stop Adani like they now talk about the Franklin. “Where were you and what did you do?” they will ask.
READ THE FULL TEXT AT https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/24/the-adani-mine-is-this-generations-franklin-river-people-power-can-stop-it?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+AUS+v1+-+AUS+morning+mail+callout&utm_term=218982&subid=7413251&CMP=ema_632
Saturday, March 25, 2017
VERDURE - Canberra Choral Society
Canberra Choral Society’s first performance with new artistic director Dianna Nixon
March 26, 5.30 pm Village Centre, National Arboretum
Canberra Choral Society will launch its 2017 series in the stunning surrounds of the National Arboretum, with a program created by new artistic director Dianna Nixon celebrating the human relationship with trees and nature.
From the innocence of the famous poem Trees, by Joyce Kilmer, in a gorgeous setting by ex-Canberran, Daniel Brinsmead, to the wildly dramatic Frank Hutchens' setting of Charles Kingsley's Ode to the North East Wind, the programme gives the choir a range of stimulating artistic and technical challenges. A third Australian composer is featured in the concert with an exquisite setting, by Stephen Leek, of The Silent Gums, which will be sung (and danced) by a small group of students of Wild Voices Music Theatre.
The choir will be exploring combinations and textures ranging from unison singing and solos, to the lushly glorious final chorus from Leonard Bernstein's take on Voltaire's novella, Candide.
Other poets whose work features in this programme include Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Mary Coleridge, and, for the Leek setting, text created by Anne Williams and the Eltham East Primary School Choir.
It should be an afternoon of total pleasure for performers and audience alike, with the picturesque backdrop of Arboretum plantings and Lake Burley Griffin views framing our efforts.
Tickets: http://www. trybooking.com/253229
And check out this article in Canberra Times:
Friday, March 24, 2017
from Rochford Street Review: Vale JOANNE KYGER
Vale Joanne Kygerby Mark Roberts |
Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of Joanne Kyger on 22 March. Associated with the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, poet Joanne Kyger studied philosophy and literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, moving to San Francisco in 1957 just before she finished her degree. In San Francisco she attended the Sunday meetings of Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, and moved into the East West House, a communal house for students of Zen Buddhism and Asian studies. She lived in Japan with Gary Snyder, her husband at the time, and traveled in India with Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky. She eventually returned to California, where she lived until her death in 2017. (Text courtesy of the Poetry Foundation)
Full bography and links to poems are available at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/joanne-kyger#poet
And an interview at http://queenmobs.com/2017/02/everyone-counts-questions-joanne-kyger/
And an interview at http://queenmobs.com/2017/02/everyone-counts-questions-joanne-kyger/
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Issa Haiku
at my feet
when did you get here?
snail
ISSA - 1801
.足元へいつ来りしよかたつぶり
ashi moto e itsu kitarishi yo katatsuburi
ashi moto e itsu kitarishi yo katatsuburi
Shinji Ogawa comments: "This haiku shows a very common scene of surprise when one finds a slow snail very close to oneself. Adding to that, when we learn that Issa was attending his dying father, our appreciation of this haiku may advance farther. We must learn how many things are left out from the haiku and yet, or therefore, so many things are expressed."
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Monday, March 20, 2017
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Sir Derek Walcott is dead.
Sir Derek Walcott is dead.
Relatives and sources close to the Saint Lucian poet and playwright who had been suffering with health issues have confirmed that he passed away in the early hours of Friday morning.
Walcott received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex from 2010 to 2013.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
March 20 World Storytelling Day
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Tuesday, March 07, 2017
ISSA HAIKU
don't cry, insects!
the world will get better
in its own time
the world will get better
in its own time
ISSA 1825
.鳴な虫直る時には世が直る
naku na mushi naoru toki ni wa yo ga naoru
naku na mushi naoru toki ni wa yo ga naoru
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