Hello All, this is where you will find all the materials used in the Workshop held on 24/11/2019. Enjoy! Music and Poetry- in Francis Webb Poems workshopped: Dennis General comments on poems: Commentson9poems Audio Recordings of Key Sessions: Invitation to Pilgrimage June 30- July 13, 2020 Further Details and for Expression of Interest contact: Reho…
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Francis Webb and David Malouf
This week we are exploring the work of two writers who in their own ways are committed to the sacred dimension of life and who are also environmentalists. Please look through the following slides to get an idea of the ground that will be covered in lectures and tutorials this week. FrancisWebb & Malouf 2019…
Clemente Week 9: Patrick White, Francis Webb, Louis Nowra….
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 &…
20th Century Poets, Francis Webb and Judith Beveridge
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…
Reading Australia: Best Summative Blog Posts for 2017
There have been some truly fabulous Summative Blog Posts from the group of students who have just finished the third year unit Reading Australia. Such wonderful reflections that bring into focus students’ ethnicity, their appreciation of what Australian culture has to offer, but also their deep sadness at the continuing injustices, especially to indigenous people.…
Francis Webb- the most unjustly neglected poet of the 20th Century (Herbert Read)
We have just spent 2 weeks exploring a huge range of Francis Webb’s poetry, from his earliest “Images in Winter” through to his last, magnificent “Nessun Dorma”. In between we have looked at his fascination with Australian exploration in Eyre All Alone and have studied his response to inmates in the hospital in which he was…
Francis Webb – Seminar 3- Aquinas Academy
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…
Francis Webb Seminar 1- Aquinas Academy07/02/2017
Today’s session explored the complex background to Francis Webb’s powerful creative imagination. We looked first at “On First Hearing a Cuckoo”, partly inspired by Frederick Delius’ On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring. Here is a reading of the poem and the conversation that ensued: The seminar then moved on to explore two of Webb’s early poems…
Seminar Series on Francis Webb
Back on home turf I am now about to present a series of four two-hour seminars on the life and poetry of Francis Webb. The series is called “Poetry and Grace: The Life and Poetry of Francis Webb”. This takes place at the Aquinas Academy in the Rocks, Sydney. This will be a wonderful opportunity…
Francis Webb Seminar Series Feb 2017
Please find advance warning of a Francis Webb Poetry Seminar Series Running in Feb 2017 Click here for PDF: 2017-mg-francis-webb-gods-fool Please find advance warning of a Francis Webb Poetry Seminar Series Running in Feb 2017
Australian Poetry and Prose in the Early 20th Century
We had fun today exploring a range of authors: John Shaw Neilson, Miles Franklin, Frederic Manning, M.Barnard Eldershaw, Judith Wright, Rosemary Dobson, Francis Webb and Gwen Harwood. What an amazing cross-section of talent! The one strongest idea that came to me during the lecture was a question that arose after we pondered the meaning of A.D.Hope’s…
Oz Poetry in the later 20th Century
Today we covered a huge range of Oz writers: Rosemary Dobson, Francis Webb, Gwen Harwood, David Malouf (his poetry), Barbara Hanrahan, Les Murray, Michael Dransfield, Yahia Al-Samaway, Kevin Hart, Judith Beveridge, Kate Grenville and finally Chi Vu (her “A Psychic Guide”). Rosemary Dobson’s amazing Ekphrastic poem “Child with a Cockatoo” (based on a painting by…
Oz Lit in the Twentieth Century
Patrick White was the focus of much of today’s lecture. His essay “The Prodigal Son” (1958) gives a wonderful account of why White came back to Australia after nearly 20 years in Europe. He describes his response to a materialistic, spiritually dead culture and yet sets out his determination to make a difference to this…
Francis Webb Commemorative Reading of his Poetry- this Saturday 12 September, 2015.
Hi all, this Saturday afternoon, if you live near Chatswood you might take yourselves off up to the Willoughby Library where there is a special commemorative event on the poet Francis Webb. I will be leading off the readings and discussions since I am the biographer of Francis Webb and have been asked to say…
Early Twentieth Century Writers in Australia
We will be looking at some of these authors more closely next week, so to whet your appetites why not try one or two of these blog topics. REMEMBER ALSO YOU MUST COMPLETE AT LEAST ONE PEER REVIEW EACH WEEK. THESE WILL COUNT TOWARDS YOUR FINAL ASSESSMENT. BE BRAVE, BOLD AND ADVENTUROUS: TELL YOUR PEER…
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