Creekwater Journal

by Robert Gray | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 070220935 Global Overview for this book
Registered by lakelady2282 of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on 6/13/2018
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Journal Entry 1 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, June 13, 2018
The blurb on the back of the book Creekwater Journal says: “Creekwater Journal is outstanding for its intense visual awareness, for the clarity and austerity of its writing and for its understated feeling. I definitely agree on all three points and I was actually surprised by the simplicity of the poems. I’m not sure what was happening with poetry in Australia during the 1970s but I’m sure this collection stood out at the time.
Here are the opening lines of the first poem in the collection:
“Journey: the North Coast
Next thing, I wake up in a swaying bunk,
as though aboard a clipper at sea,
and it’s the train, that booms and cracks,
it tears the wind apart.”

Here’s the opening lines of the second poem:

“Kangaroo
That hungry face
moves on grass
the way an artist’s pencil
retouches
shadows.”

Favourite poems: “Back There”, several of the unnamed poems listed as 18 poems:

“Dusk, I go to scythe
under the trees at the front gate -
The pale moths rising.”

“The rain: white grapes,
And this cobweb odour of
the wet dust.”

“Smokestack, evening sky:
and the smoke, a woman’s long hair
as she pauses underwater.”

Also “The Pine”. An interesting, very Australian collection.

Journal Entry 2 by lakelady2282 at The Stubborn Scorpio Cafe in Cardiff, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, June 13, 2018

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