Poetry

James Castle at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

December 24, 2008 Art+Psyche

Ron Silliman’s recent post on the current James Castle exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art alerted me to the work of this fascinating artist. It’s tantalising – I obviously can’t get to the show from Sydney, and I know so little about him, but Silliman’s comment certainly made me look at his work around [...]

Tagged as: Art, James Castle, Outsiders, Poetry

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Janet Frame – another outsider – to stay my own way

September 8, 2008 Art+Psyche

Advance reviews have appeared for The Goose Bath, a selection of Janet Frame’s poetry that’s due out in Australia this month. On the recent theme of outsiders, Janet Frame was yet another. Here’s her niece Pamela Gordon (in a recent Sydney Morning Herald review of the book) on Janet: …she never called herself a poet. [...]

Tagged as: Outsiders, Poetry

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something in a drawer

August 2, 2008 Art+Psyche

I’m pleased to say that a poem of mine, something in a drawer, has been published in the latest edition of Blue Dog: Australian Poetry. Here is the poem: something in a drawer like something i’ve put in the small drawer of a dresser (slid the drawer in while i was unawares) – and now [...]

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Meanings are reborn in poems

June 19, 2008 Art+Psyche

Here’s a great review by Ron Silliman of Joseph Lease’s recent poetic work Broken World. And from an interview with Joseph Lease: We all know—in a sort of abstract way—that being born is meaningful and dying is meaningful—but the meanings get lost in our worst moments—and they are reborn in poems. Lease is a fan [...]

Tagged as: Poetry, Psychotherapy

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The whole landscape is overrun with words

June 9, 2008 Art+Psyche

The following are some threads on landscape and poetry which have recently intersected for me. First, an image from upcoming show German Expressionist Prints at the Rex Irwin Gallery. Erich Heckel (1883 – 1970) Two men by the sea Woodcut, 46.2 cm x 32.7 cm (image Rex Irwin Art Dealer) And here is Daniel Siegel [...]

Tagged as: Erich Heckel, Poetry, Psychotherapy

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aortic song and no place for eyes

May 25, 2008 Art+Psyche

Ron Dowd aortic song linocut, collage 2008, 31 x 27 cm no place for eyes tonight cool wind breathes over the softblack field – from the field’s heart the fruitbat cries short notes

Tagged as: Lino-cut, Noumenal Field, Poetry

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A morning in the wildness of the park

May 11, 2008 Art+Psyche

This morning I walked and photographed from before dawn in Centennial Park, a haven in the middle of Sydney’s busy Eastern Suburbs. I’m reminded now of Robert MacFarlane’s statement in his wonderful recent book The Wild Places: I had learned to see another type of wildness, to which I had been blind: the wildness of [...]

Tagged as: Landscape, Poetry

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Occupied territory of another sort

May 3, 2008 Art+Psyche

Australia’s ACT (the Australian Capital Territory) strikes me as a powerfully symbolic territory (of a different sort to Winton’s territory occupied by the ratepayer) and one that has a place in our collective psychic life. This fact has not been lost, of course, on the original inhabitants of this land, who for 36 years have [...]

Tagged as: First Australians, Landscape, Poetry

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The Monaro, drought 2006

April 25, 2008 Art+Psyche

Recently, some photos I took in the Monaro region of NSW in 2006 have been coming back to me – I suppose because the header image in this new blog has an image I also took in the Monaro. The drought was 10 years old in 2006. Here are some images: My poem seven crows [...]

Tagged as: Photography, Poetry

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Two poetic openings – Wright and Levertov

April 25, 2008 Art+Psyche

On the recent theme of openings, here are two wonderful poems. To me, both speak of the possibilities of opening ourselves to deeper, richer parts of ourselves, through encounters with the natural world. The first is by Judith Wright: Breath I turned to the dark window; outside were stars and frost. My breath went out [...]

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