Re: Bush Poetry named in Parliament
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 5:21 pm
Thanks Maureen,
I would really like to meet your Mayor some day! Paul sounds like a real down to earth CAN-DO bloke! We would bond I reckon....
With Winton, what has happened has happened... and my mind turns to doing something practical.
Writing govt cheques is OK but if there was a creative bloke in Canberra in Arts who was of any use (which of course there isn't) he would be trawling (with his govt chequebook) the net looking for old Paterson books, rustling up books by current bush poets, hassling the CJ Dennis society for spare books, badgering the National Library, borrowing books from people too... to make an incredible display of Australian Bush Poetry, the likes of which has never been seen before. Yes the Minister can open the display and get full credit.
THAT is the essence of Banjo Paterson. His poetry. Brilliant. BUSH poetry. (I might even lend my first edition Happy Dispatches).
.. but then I would not like to interrupt their tea-break.
Poems like "Growing Butterflies On The Moon" are what Australian poetry is all about now in the tight corridors of the Arts Ministry... ladies panties...not The Man From Snowy River! I think...?
"George, the media are here and want to take another photo of you cuddling that Bush Poetry book...."
I would really like to meet your Mayor some day! Paul sounds like a real down to earth CAN-DO bloke! We would bond I reckon....
With Winton, what has happened has happened... and my mind turns to doing something practical.
Writing govt cheques is OK but if there was a creative bloke in Canberra in Arts who was of any use (which of course there isn't) he would be trawling (with his govt chequebook) the net looking for old Paterson books, rustling up books by current bush poets, hassling the CJ Dennis society for spare books, badgering the National Library, borrowing books from people too... to make an incredible display of Australian Bush Poetry, the likes of which has never been seen before. Yes the Minister can open the display and get full credit.
THAT is the essence of Banjo Paterson. His poetry. Brilliant. BUSH poetry. (I might even lend my first edition Happy Dispatches).
.. but then I would not like to interrupt their tea-break.
Poems like "Growing Butterflies On The Moon" are what Australian poetry is all about now in the tight corridors of the Arts Ministry... ladies panties...not The Man From Snowy River! I think...?
"George, the media are here and want to take another photo of you cuddling that Bush Poetry book...."