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FAVOURITE LINES IN AUSSIE POEMS

Okay folks, what are some of your favourite lines from Australian poems? Here's one of mine, from Kenneth Slessor's 'City Nightfall': 'And there is only the quiet noise of planets feeding'. What an imagination KS had. Love it. LJ, May 13.

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Comment by Lorne Johnson on May 15, 2013 at 11:04: Great stuff from Henry, Catherine. Hopefully, we now see ourselves in Days of Gold. Thanks for your reply... Corey, I love Aidan's work. 'Avenues and Runways' is one of the Australian collections I most admire. He does economy and imagery so well. I adore 'Airship' in that volume - astoundingly imaginative. Have you read 'Asymmetry', the book he put together after having a stroke? Not as inventive as 'Avenues...' I reckon, but still strong, memorable. Thanks for your reply, LJ.

Comment by Lorne Johnson on May 17, 2013 at 17:14: I should write a love poem about you two! Hee hee. LJ

Comment by Lorne Johnson on May 17, 2013 at 17:16: I love 'The Bee Hut' by DP, Corey. Again, a woman with a mastery of economy. Catherine, without the greats, there'd be very, very little interest in poetry in this country. Have a good weekend one and all, LJ.

Comment by Fleur Beaupert on May 18, 2013 at 16:57: These lines from Gwen Harwood's Prize Giving have always stayed with me:

Eisenbart teased his gown while others clapped,

and peered into a trophy which suspended

his image upside down: a sage fool trapped

by music in a copper net of hair.