Tag: Five Days Old

Clemente Week 9: Patrick White, Francis Webb, Louis Nowra….

by michaelgriffith1 • May 1, 2019 • 0 Comments

This week we spent some time introducing Louis Nowra’s play The Golden Age which will be our performance piece over the next 3 weeks! What fun! Please read as much of the text as you can before we start rehearsals next week…. We also looked in at Patrick White, Australia’s only Nobel Prize winning novelist &…

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20th Century Poets, Francis Webb and Judith Beveridge

by michaelgriffith1 • October 9, 2018 • 0 Comments

Today we began by exploring the life and language of Francis Webb, especially his poem “Five Days Old” which gives such a deep insight into the way he uses language to transform his experience into such a momentous event. We then had the privilege of having as our guest the poet Judith Beveridge who spoke…

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Francis Webb- Aquinas Academy- Session 4

by michaelgriffith1 • February 25, 2017 • 4 Comments

Today’s Session covered Francis Webb’s most well known poem (and his own favourite) “Five Days Old” with its celebration of the way a young child can awaken an experience of transformation in an adult. We then turned to Webb’s exploration of the creative power of St Francis of Assisi, the sequence of poems The Canticle. This…