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[Coptic Papyri]

Contents:

1. Papyri: Love-poems & fragments
   from Sappho & elsewhere (2007)
   
   
   • The Villa of the Papyri
   • Sappho to Anaktoria
   • Recipe for Making a Dadaist Poem
   • Ode to Aphrodite
   • Life among the Surrealists
   • Atthis
   • Mnasidika
   • Fragments
   • Fragments (2)
   • To a girl who doesn’t care for poetry
   • Juicy Root
   • Virgin
   • Sappho’s Epithalamion
   • Sources

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2. Ovid in Otherworld (2006)
   
   
   • Exul Ludens
   • Tristia 3.2
   • Tristia 3.3
   • Tristia 3.8
   • Tristia 3.10
   • Tristia 3.12
   • Tristia 3.13
   • Tristia 5.7
   • Tristia 5.10
   • Tristia 5.12
   • Epistulae 1.2
   • Epistulae 4.7
   • Epistulae 4.10
   • Epistulae 4.14
   • Fasti V: 421-44
   • Sources

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3. The Puppet Oresteia (2008)
   
   
   • Chorus 1 - Cursed with prophecy
   • Chorus 2 - I ran through the wood
   • Chorus 3 - Little girl lost
   • Chorus 4 - Joy lives with those
   • Chorus 5 - Cursed with second sight
   • Chorus 6 - See how Apollo
   • Chorus 7 - The labour pains
   • Chorus 8 - There she goes
   • Chorus 9 - Drops of holy water
   • Chorus 10 - Noise is like flame

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4. The Britney Suite (2003)
   
   
   • COVER
   • TITLE-PAGE
   • COPYRIGHT
   • DEDICATION
   • CONTENTS
   • QUOTATION (Britney Spears)
   • [Paul Celan:] SCHNEEPART / SNOWPART
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)
   • QUOTATION (Cut Above)
   • [Wendy Nu:] keith partridge y yo
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)
   • [Paul Celan:] ERZFLITTER / ORESPARK
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)
   • Who is Wendy Nu?
   • QUOTATION (ISBN)
   • Nouvelle vague
   • QUOTATION (Britney Spears)
   • [Paul Celan:] KALK-KROKUS / CHALK-CROCUS
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)
   • Letter to the author
   • [Wendy Nu:] mr darling writes to penthouse forum
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)
   • [Paul Celan:] DAS GEDUNKELTE / DARK
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)
   • QUOTATION (John Felstiner)
   • QUOTATION (Nine Days)
   • It’s always too late ...
   • QUOTATION (Britney Spears)
   • [Paul Celan:] BEIDHÄNDIGE / BOTH-HANDED
   • QUOTATION (Paul Celan)

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5. 31 Days (2009)
   
   
   • François Villon, “Ballade à s’amie”
   • Heinrich von Kleist, from Die Marquise von O
   • Jorge Luis Borges, “El puñal”
   • Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables
   • Karl Kraus, from Aphorismen
   • Garcilaso de la Vega, “Soneto XXXVII”
   • Guillaume Apollinaire, from L'Hérésiarque & Cie
   • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Gefunden”
   • Benito Pérez Galdós, from Fortunata y Jacinta
   • Pierre de Marivaux, from Le Legs
   • Arthur Schopenhauer, from Aphorismen
   • José Lezama Lima, “Retrato de Don Francisco de Quevedo”
   • François-René de Chateaubriand, from Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
   • Rainer Maria Rilke, from Duino Elegies 1
   • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, from El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
   • Arthur Rimbaud, “Ô saisons ô châteaux”
   • Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué, from Undine
   • D. F. Sarmiento, from Facundo: Civilización y Barbarie en Las Pampas Argentinas
   • Voltaire, from Abrégé de l'Histoire Universelle depuis Charlemagne jusques à Charlequint
   • Heinrich Heine, “Orpheisch”
   • Augusto Roa Bastos, from "La Excavacion”
   • Gérard de Nerval, “El Desdichado”
   • Franz Kafka, from "Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse"
   • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, from Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz
   • Georges Perec, from La Disparition
   • Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm, from “Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich”
   • Leopoldo Lugones, “Historia de mi muerte”
   • Vincent Voiture, “Pour vos beaux yeux et vostre beau visage”
   • Theodor Fontane, from Vor dem Sturm
   • Octavio Paz, from “La verdad contra el Compromiso”
   • Jackson Wills, “Jackson's Assignment”

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6. Case Studies (2001)
   
   
   • The Cliché
   • Truth in the Cliché?
   • The Psychic
   • Truth in the Psychic?
   • The Road of Excess
   • The Palace of Wisdom
   • Memento

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7. Flying Blind (2009)

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8. Theme & Variations (2010)
   
   
   • Paul Celan
   • René Char
   • Octavio Paz
   • Salvatore Quasimodo
   • Rainer Maria Rilke
   • César Vallejo

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9. Celanie: Poems & Drawings after Paul Celan (2010-12)
   
   
   • Jack Ross: Poems
   • Emma Smith: Drawings
   • Jack Ross: Textual Notes

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10. Melbourne Notebook (2011-12)
    
    
    • Marie de France: The Nightingale
    • Choruses from the Society of Inner Light

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11. A Clearer View of the Hinterland (2014)
    
    
    • Jack Ross: Textual Notes

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12. Poetry Specials (2008-2017)
    
    
    • Minotaur (2008)
    • Je donne à mon espoir (2008)
    • Volcanic Glass (2009)
    • Silhouette (2009)
    • Pale Star (2011)
    • Lounge Room Tribalism (2011)
    • Britain's Missing Top Model (2011)
    • Except Once (2012)
    • Jay Checks His Father into a Home (2014)
    • Ice Road Trucker (2015)
    • Antigone (2015)
    • 1942 (2016)
    • Canberra Tales (2017)
    • Rather a shock (2017)
    • Time for an outing (2017)

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13. Collage Poems (1997-2005)
    
    
    • Jack’s Metamorphoses (1997-98)
    • Conversation Pieces (1997-98)
    • Wharfbury Dogs (1998)
    • Evenings in the Blackout (1998)
    • Dieting. I’m Hungry too (2000)
    • In the Cave of Henry James (2000)
    • Ancestral Voices (2001)
    • Satan’s School for Girls (2002)
    • Anamorphoses (2002)
    • Postcards (2002-3)
    • Servants of the Wankh (2002-3)
    • Suburban Apocalypse (2001-4)
    • Days Under Water (2001-4)
    • Citizens of the People’s Republic of Freaktown (2003-4)
    • Muses (for Joanna Margaret Paul) (2004-5)
    • Notes

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14. Can Poetry Save the Earth? (2018)
    
    
    • John Clare: The Skylark (1835)
    • I ♥ NZ (1999)
    • Family Plot (2015)
    • What to do till the sentinels come (2018)
    • 1942 (2016)
    • My Uncle Tommy (2018)
    • Paul Celan: Matter of Britain (1957)

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[Bruegel the Elder: The Tower of Babel (1525)]

Can Poetry Save the Earth?

Our Changing World: Yearn to Learn (2018)

Can Poetry Save the Earth?
Our Changing World
Public Lecture Series
Albany Campus, Massey University, Thursday 31st May, 6-7.30 pm

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Can poetry save the Earth? 

Thursday 31 May 2018  | Associate Professor Bryan Walpert, Dr Jack Ross, Dr Jo Emeney
Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems is the title of poet and critic John Felstiner's 2009 exploration of how the human and natural worlds connect. Can writing and reading poetry change both? It’s a question that resonates with one of the most pressing issues of our time – the impact of climate change. Poets and editors Associate Professor Bryan Walpert, Dr Jack Ross and Dr Jo Emeney, from Massey’s creative writing programme, discuss how imagination and thinking about nature can be opened up through poetry and will read from their own work.

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John Clare: The Skylark (1835)





I ♥ NZ (1999)





Family Plot (2015)


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What to do till the sentinels come (2018)





1942 (2016)





My Uncle Tommy (2018)





Paul Celan: Matter of Britain (1957)

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Our Changing World: 2018 Lecture Series

The Skylark (John Clare)

John Clare (2008)

The Skylark

The rolls and harrows lie at rest beside
The battered road; and spreading far and wide
Above the russet clods, the corn is seen
Sprouting its spiry points of tender green,
Where squats the hare, to terrors wide awake,
Like some brown clod the harrows failed to break.
Opening their golden caskets to the sun,
The buttercups make schoolboys eager run,
To see who shall be first to pluck the prize –
Up from their hurry, see, the skylark flies,
And o'er her half-formed nest, with happy wings
Winnows the air, till in the cloud she sings,
Then hangs a dust-spot in the sunny skies,
And drops, and drops, till in her nest she lies,
Which they unheeded passed – not dreaming then
That birds which flew so high would drop agen
To nests upon the ground, which anything
May come at to destroy. Had they the wing
Like such a bird, themselves would be too proud,
And build on nothing but a passing cloud!
As free from danger as the heavens are free
From pain and toil, there would they build and be,
And sail about the world to scenes unheard
Of and unseen – Oh, were they but a bird!
So think they, while they listen to its song,
And smile and fancy and so pass along;
While its low nest, moist with the dews of morn,
Lies safely, with the leveret, in the corn.

(1835)


Thomas Bewick: The Skylark (1790)

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Or Changing World: 2018 Lecture Series

I ♥ NZ

Mairangi Bay Beach (2012)

I ♥ NZ
– Bumper-sticker

… love is not love
which alters when it alteration finds:
beach-shelf eroded, Richard III gulls
in paroxysms of unholy rage.

We walked here barefoot
before the tar, swam here before
the sewerage outlet, sand-fought
by that wall.

Today I’m pelted by the wind,
“The Caribbean, boys, in full roar!”
Two kayakers

are dumb enough to try it.
Brown sturdy girls
wade bare-legged through the surf.

(12-18/12/97)

  [evasion 1 [Flint 2] (2000): 15]


Carl Barks: The Flying Dutchman. Uncle Scrooge #25 (1959)

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Or Changing World: 2018 Lecture Series

Family Plot

My father feeding the seagulls (2011)

Family Plot

I

I noticed him late last year
as I climbed the back
stairs at work

a beetle
spindly legs upflung
on the first flight down

among the dustbunnies
and detritus
of a busy office

in a while he was joined
by a tiny dead
centipede

now every morning
I say hello
and pass the time of day

illimitable spans of air
above him
his ship of eternity

lofty as the sky

 
II

PETER
d. 1976

SASHA
d. 18.3.86

MISHA
d. 23-2-90

PETYA
LOVED AND
HANDSOME

NIKITA
MUCH LOVED
d. 30.9.93

MITYA
BOLD & BEAUTIFUL
d. 5.4.94

POUPOUSSE
OUR LOVELY FRIEND
d. 31.10.05

written on our back fence

 
III

At North Shore Memorial Park
on Schnapper Rock Rd

in Central Div
Bronze 6

Block B
Row H

Plot 17
beside Grandma’s grave

my sister’s ashes
have been joined

by my father’s wooden
urn

we haven’t yet
ordered made

the little plaque
wishing him

quiet sleep
and a sweet dream

when the long trick’s over

(26/6-12/8/15)

 
John Masefield: Sea Fever (1902)

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Or Changing World: 2018 Lecture Series

What to do till the sentinels come

Roy Thomas: Avengers #102 (Marvel Comics, 1972)

What to do till the sentinels come

Yes, astronaut and cosmonaut – report, indeed! Warn, if you can, your half-waking, half-sleeping planet! Tell them, if you can …

– Roy Thomas, Avengers #102

So how was Zero?
oh she was fine
did you have any trouble getting in?
no no

when we got home
Zero’s dish was empty
meat left unopened
in the fridge

the thunderstorm
had driven her outside
to cringe
under the garden shed

she had quite a lot to say
when Bronwyn ran out
crying and calling out
her name

it’s not that my mother
neglected her task
on purpose
she’d written in her diary

FEED THE CAT!
it’s just that her mind
now fills in blanks
with certainties

not doubts
there was a slight pause
before that “fine”
all I know is our cat

left alone
in the storm
my mother alone
in the fog of her brain

(11-23/4/18)


Bronwyn Lloyd: Zero in a paper bag (2009)

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Or Changing World: 2018 Lecture Series

1942

Harry Flockton Clarke: June feeding a wallaby (c.1939-40)

1942

The picture is sepia-toned
like the not-too-far-distant war

the need to stay silent at mealtimes
so her father can hear

every radio news report
the need to pose paramount

in the stiff lines of this schoolgirl
reaching out a tentative hand

to the strangest of beasts
in the latter stages of dementia

my father removed her photos
replacing them with snaps

of his militaria
I don’t think she understands

what we see in this picture
the meekness before authority

the gentleness of the pose
the dark fringe of trees

in a faraway world
where my mother

has just been told
to pretend to feed

a wallaby

(17/9-4/12/16)

  [Dianne Firth, Poetry and Place: Catalogue for the Poetry and Place Exhibition, Belconnen Art Centre, 25 August – 17 September 2017 (Canberra: University of Canberra, 2017): 10]


Dianne Firth: Poetry and Place (2017)

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Or Changing World: 2018 Lecture Series

My Uncle Tommy

Chatswood, Sydney (1942)

My Uncle Tommy

“In the end they had to put him
in a home

Tommy had grown too heavy
for Dad to carry

Dad worried about it
till he went to visit

tried to hug him
Tommy didn’t know him

was not aware
of where they were

it was my mother
I was sorry for

she thought she was to blame
for having him

my brother shared a room
with him

all night he’d rock
inside his cot

one winter he got sick
and never spoke

again
no-one

could visit us
because

of Tommy”

(15-23/4/18)

  [Paula Green: "Monday Poem." NZ Poetry Shelf: a poetry page with reviews, interviews and other things (7/5/18). Available at: https://nzpoetryshelf.com/2018/05/07/monday-poem-jack-rosss-my-uncle-tommy]


Chatswood District Community Hospital

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Or Changing World: 2018 Lecture Series

Matter of Britain (after Paul Celan)

Gisèle Celan-Lestrange: Etching (1927-1991)

Matter of Britain

Gorselight, yellow, slopes
against the skyThorn
disinfects your woundsRing
out, it’s eveningNothing
crosses the sea to pray
The bloodred sheet sets sail for you

Arid, dried-out, bed
behind youScar-
invadedStar-
embossedmilky inlets
in the vaseDate
stones underneath, furred blue
tufts of forgetfulness
your memory

(Do you know me
hands? I went
by the forked route you showed
me, my mouth spat pebbles, I walked
through snowdrifts, shadow – do you know me?)

Hands, the thorn-
burnt wound rings out
Hands, nothing, the sea
Hands, in the gorse-light
the bloody sheet
sets sail for you

You
you teach
your teach your hands
you teach your hands, you teach
you teach your hands
to sleep

[13/8/57]

(9/3-29/4/10)

[“Celanie: 5 Versions from Paul Celan.” brief 41 (2010): 54-59]


Paul Celan

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Or Changing World: 2018 Lecture Series

Collage Poems

Anne Ross: Egyptian Girl

Collage Poems
1997-2005

Jack's Metamorphoses (1997-98)





Conversation Pieces (1997-98)





Wharfbury Dogs (1997-98)





Evenings in the Blackout (1998)





Dieting. I'm Hungry too (2000)





In the Cave of Henry James (2000)





Ancestral Voices (2001)





Satan's School for Girls (2002)





Anamorphoses (2002)





Postcards (2002-3)





Servants of the Wankh (2002-3)





Suburban Apocalypse (2001-4)





Days Under Water (2001-4)





Citizens of the People’s Republic of Freaktown (2003-4)





Muses (for Joanna Margaret Paul) (2004-5)



Notes (2018)

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