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Francis Webb’s Eyre All Alone & David Malouf’s Fly Away Peter

by michaelgriffith1 • October 16, 2018 • 0 Comments

Today’s lecture began with some further comments on the poetry of Francis Webb. In particular I looked at “End of the Picnic”, “Black Cockatoos”, “Banksia” (from the Eyre All Alone sequence and “Harry” (from the Ward Two sequence. The first part of today’s audio lecture covers these poems. Enjoy listening! We then moved on to David Malouf’s…

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Francis Webb – Seminar 3- Aquinas Academy

by michaelgriffith1 • February 21, 2017 • 4 Comments

Today we explored more deeply Webb’s quest for the “tender voyaging line of truth”, figured so often in something that exists beyond the inner and outer chaos of the present moment. Sometimes it is the sounds of birds (the two words of the cuckoo), sometimes it is a star (echoing the story Webb was told…