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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dxH_c6Bsy_8\/V0vI_W13hrI\/AAAAAAAABQw\/izyc7PbEBwgNmiAAjrj4g4Gbf1kNYOpKQCLcB\/s320\/Muldoon%252BPaul_Michael%252BPotiker.jpg\" width=\"212\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.php?isbn=9780571316045\/lc.jpg\u0026amp;client=elgar\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.php?isbn=9780571316045\/lc.jpg\u0026amp;client=elgar\" height=\"320\" width=\"201\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Writers Festival session \"One thousand things worth knowing\" featured acclaimed US-based Irish poet Paul Muldoon speaking about his career and artistry with our own C.K.\u0026nbsp;Stead. Muldoon, a poet who enjoys a critical standing up there with the likes of Seamus Heaney (not to mention being a Professor at Princeton University and poetry editor at The New Yorker), was a warm and eloquent speaker. He read wonderfully and spoke with humour and grace. Stead is clearly less of a natural public speaker, (to be fair, he was a late stand-in for Bill Manhire), but knew Muldoon's work and antecedents more than well enough to help facilitate an interesting discussion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe conversation begun with talk of formative influences. Aside from the impact of the immediacy necessary in radio, impressed upon him during his time working for the BBC, Muldoon admitted early poetic efforts also involved trying to \"follow Eliot\", which had often resulted in poetry that was \"Eliotic.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn contrast, being an Irish poet, Muldoon had found it necessary to \"work around\" Yeats rather than aspire to, let alone compete with, his greatness. Stead expressed surprise that Yeats had not been mentioned more in the prior ‘From 1916 to Here’ festival event which Muldoon had been part of. Muldoon pointed out the irony that historical events after the fact had helped imbue a poem like Yeats’s “Easter 1916” with its verisimilitude. The British shooting of insurrectionists during the Easter Rising had in fact only happened after Yeats had composed the poem and not the other way round.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven if he had begun as one of many Eliot acolytes, it was not the Eliotic that Muldoon was shooting for. Rather, he hoped he might induce an \"electric shock\" for the reader, or as Stead put it, \"a kick in the behind.\" Muldoon elaborated that if the process of composing the poem is unexpected for the writer, this increases the likelihood that a similar shift, whether seismic or minor, will occur for the reader.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"If I know what I'm doing then everyone else will know too. . . If I don't know what I'm doing, there's a chance others will be surprised.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFurther building on this contention, Muldoon went so far as to dismiss the \"write about what you know\" creative writing tenet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite wanting to cause this shift in the reader, Muldoon was uncertain of the effect poetry might have on the world at large. He hoped it might do some good, and could see a world in which art took over the role of organised religion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuldoon read poems such as ‘Honey’ from his new volume \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb2960225\"\u003EOne Thousand Things Worth Knowing\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E, and older poems such as ‘Saffron’ and ‘Why Brownlee Left’. Muldoon contended ‘Honey’ was the type of poem which seemed to ask of itself: “Is this a poem at all?” The answer “Not much” was one Muldoon felt the culture of poetry as a whole should be more comfortable with. He read with a gentle determination that seemed perfectly in keeping with the tone of the poems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA brief QnA session elicited charming and self-deprecating responses from Muldoon. When asked if he really felt he could “write about Saffron forever”, Muldoon said he felt that “subject matter” was irrelevant – that the whole world could be seen through the prism of something as seemingly minor as saffron. A second audience member enquired about what books had spoken to Muldoon in his youth. Stevenson’s \u003Ci\u003ETreasure Island\u003C\/i\u003E as it turns out. “If I could write a book like \u003Ci\u003ETreasure Island\u003C\/i\u003E, I wouldn’t bother with this stuff.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-- \u003Ci\u003ESimon\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3383854281253459343\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/paul-muldoon-at-awf-2016-poet-worth.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3383854281253459343"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3383854281253459343"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/paul-muldoon-at-awf-2016-poet-worth.html","title":"Paul Muldoon at AWF 2016: A poet worth knowing"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dxH_c6Bsy_8\/V0vI_W13hrI\/AAAAAAAABQw\/izyc7PbEBwgNmiAAjrj4g4Gbf1kNYOpKQCLcB\/s72-c\/Muldoon%252BPaul_Michael%252BPotiker.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-6436267973642434452"},"published":{"$t":"2016-03-27T22:00:00.000+13:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-04-09T19:37:31.107+12:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Karen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"poetry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"World Poetry Day"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Popping up for refugees on World Poetry Day"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-jkCFn4hqvNk\/VvUaFR23ttI\/AAAAAAAABHo\/vRrYLFbRQ0kp36Y3I8I3ffHWF_ma8cGLw\/s1600\/a%2Bpoem%2Bfor%2Brefugees.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-jkCFn4hqvNk\/VvUaFR23ttI\/AAAAAAAABHo\/vRrYLFbRQ0kp36Y3I8I3ffHWF_ma8cGLw\/s320\/a%2Bpoem%2Bfor%2Brefugees.jpg\" width=\"261\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs World Poetry Day rolled around this week I was taken aback to read on the website of its founder, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO for short, that one of its aims\u0026nbsp;is to ensure that \"the art of poetry will no longer be considered an outdated form of art\". What? Someone thinks poetry is like hair jewellery? Who are these people talking to?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Encourage a return to the oral tradition of poetry recitals\" on the other hand, is an aim I am happy to get behind. \u0026nbsp;Although \"poetry recital\" does sound -- if not quite outdated, perhaps overly quaint, evoking the poetry pursuits of school-days (of which, please note, my memories are all good) -- I am a huge believer in poetry being shared not just through books but by being spoken, performed, read aloud, and slammed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe descendants of Homer who make up the Poets Circle in Athens also believe in the power of spoken poetry. They invited poets around the world to join together this World Poetry Day (also the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination) in performing readings calling attention to the cataclysm of our time, the refugee crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is so natural, so unsurprising, that this idea saw the light in Greece. Or better, under the light of Greece -- that incandescent, supernal light, as Henry Miller described it in the best book ever written about Greece by a non-Greek, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1413392__Sthe%20colossus%20of%20maroussi__Orightresult__U__X7;jsessionid=F407AF3248E8FDC7B95BF725F82B262C?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003EThe Colossus of Maroussi\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\"One would have to be a toad, a snail or a slug not to be affected by this radiance which emanates from the human heart as well as from the heavens,\" he writes. \"Wherever you go in Greece the people open up like flowers\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETravelling in Greece and experiencing the same extraordinary hospitality fifty years after Henry Miller -- years in which the Greeks had suffered through occupation by the Axis powers during World War Two, a bloody civil war, and a repressive military dictatorship -- we used to say that it must have been because of the strength of their age-old tradition of having gods who were always popping down to earth in human form, so that any stranger knocking at your door could have been a god in disguise.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the tradition continues:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Local people on the island of Lesbos help bring migrants to safety\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6a67433cf3910894cc4bedc0ef370e9af30d0e2a\/0_0_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?w=300\u0026amp;q=55\u0026amp;auto=format\u0026amp;usm=12\u0026amp;fit=max\u0026amp;s=6114a31f7533042196208cc26391d86e\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #767676; font-family: \u0026quot;guardian text sans web\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica neue\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;lucida grande\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"\u003EPhotograph: Kostis Ntantamis\/AP via The Guardian\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is a photograph of local people on the Greek island of Lesbos helping bring migrants to safety after their arrival by boat. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/mar\/12\/refugee-crisis-greeks-strangers-migrants\"\u003E\"Refugee Crisis: how Greeks opened their hearts to strangers\" \u003C\/a\u003Eis the title of the article in The Guardian which this photograph accompanied. \"Despite six years of economic hardship, ordinary people have shown astonishing generosity in helping the 42,000 migrants stranded in their country\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Auckland poets Ruby Porter, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb3160900__Sgregory%20kan__Orightresult__U__X4?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003EGregory Kan\u003C\/a\u003E, Ole Maiava, Mohamed Hassan and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb2847966__Ssiobhan%20harvey__P0%2C3__Orightresult__U__X4?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003ESiobhan Harvey\u003C\/a\u003E responded to the invitation of the Athens poets by sharing their poems in a pop-up reading on the steps of the Central City Library, hosted by Auckland Libraries in association with PEN International and the World Poetry Movement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-w_6ZLk4bdm4\/VvfkIgcqLhI\/AAAAAAAABH4\/kjGY42ry-LEUskqJn578xaCxtN7yNaXFw\/s1600\/IMG_20160321_121757.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-w_6ZLk4bdm4\/VvfkIgcqLhI\/AAAAAAAABH4\/kjGY42ry-LEUskqJn578xaCxtN7yNaXFw\/s200\/IMG_20160321_121757.jpg\" width=\"110\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-qFgFMokr1EE\/VvfkgPvcgeI\/AAAAAAAABH8\/I3c_gpgpo78f4cmijcZKg-mqHrodILx7g\/s1600\/IMG_20160321_121244.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-qFgFMokr1EE\/VvfkgPvcgeI\/AAAAAAAABH8\/I3c_gpgpo78f4cmijcZKg-mqHrodILx7g\/s200\/IMG_20160321_121244.jpg\" width=\"110\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-HdWmdrB3F-k\/VvfmugKfnII\/AAAAAAAABII\/73ruEb0BdncnV0CMua3CAQ_fJugt78uJg\/s1600\/IMG_20160321_122656.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-HdWmdrB3F-k\/VvfmugKfnII\/AAAAAAAABII\/73ruEb0BdncnV0CMua3CAQ_fJugt78uJg\/s200\/IMG_20160321_122656.jpg\" width=\"110\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-UtoO9oWYMWA\/Vvfm_UhRbgI\/AAAAAAAABIM\/3X1JVg9WMCUTCe-XYueV5dGZHMn1_upGQ\/s1600\/IMG_20160321_123735.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-UtoO9oWYMWA\/Vvfm_UhRbgI\/AAAAAAAABIM\/3X1JVg9WMCUTCe-XYueV5dGZHMn1_upGQ\/s200\/IMG_20160321_123735.jpg\" width=\"110\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003E(clockwise from upper left: Gregory Kan, Ruby Porter, Mohamed Hassan, Ole Maiava)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow do you measure the weight of a human life, asked Ruby Porter, in a poem which caught at me with its mix of combativeness and eloquence:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003EHow to weigh a life\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EThe weighing of a human life:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;like smoke\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; hard to measure.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EAndrew Little says\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; seven-fifty\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EJoyce\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; two to three hundred\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Ethe government\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; under pressure\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; agree to six.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; (A number\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; not necessarily divisible\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; by families.)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EWhat then? Do a Winston Peters \u0026amp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; send back the men?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EAnd you? You move freely\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;intake sharply\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; flame racing \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;to your \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; fingertips\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Efalls away.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EWe watched smoke last time you were up\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Harvey Keitel \u0026amp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Forrest Whittaker.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EThat first scene\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; where they discuss\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; the bet\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Sir Walter Raleigh made with\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Queen Elizabeth\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; the First\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003Eyou can’t do that\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ci\u003Ethat’s like weighing\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ci\u003Eair.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EThe weighing\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; of a human life: like\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; gallons of water. How many is there\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;between us?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EThe ocean is made up of\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;two hundred and sixty four million.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Oceans away\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; (you are) \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; land locked but still you\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; fly \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;over\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;sea to get here\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Etaking off\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026amp; landing\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; at will.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EIf I could swim to you\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I would.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Oceans away\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Eit’s easy\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;to turn from them.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EThe TV flickers blue and grey but\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;that’s all\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; that happens.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EIt’s easy to turn it off when it’s on TV\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; (I can’t turn it off with you.)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EWeighing a human life: like\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; the sea that holds them down\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026amp; out\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; side\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; turn on it\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;I want to spoon you\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; spoon fed our news in two minute sound bites\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; one for the refugee crisis\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;three for the flag.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe difference\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; William Hurt’s character said\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ci\u003Ewas the weight\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;of the smoke.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EYou said you signed every petition you found online \u0026amp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Eyou wanted to go to the protest but you were working\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; that day.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EThe weighing\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; of a human life: like\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; tapping out the parts of bodies onto scales\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; sad solo in A minor \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Ethis much will overbalance our\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; rockstar economy\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Ethis much will overflow our\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; state housing – isn’t it\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;already?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E(I don’t know which city you call home anymore \u0026amp; it bothers me.)\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EI guess we have many.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; You are a kind of home\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; to me.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ESometimes\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; after you leave\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EI sleep on your side\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;of the bed – it still smells of you\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; for a night or two.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EMusk incense coconut perfume\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; smoke.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EThe counting of human lives:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; like drops of water\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Erunning\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Edown\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Emy\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Ewindow\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; at night\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Ewhen you are here\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; you say\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; it always rains when we’re together.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EAs if you can just\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; tally it up\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; lives\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; like numbers on a\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; spreadsheet.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EWhat’s your value? Reduce it down \u0026amp; export to excel.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EOn screen\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; William Hurt’s character said\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; I’ll admit\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ci\u003Eit’s strange\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ci\u003Eit’s almost like weighing\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ci\u003Esomeone’s \u0026nbsp;soul.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EThe weighing of a human life:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; like\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; each head has a cost \u0026amp; we can just\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; assess it.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; How many refugees could\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; twenty six million save?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EYou smoke it till it’s all gone\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; then you weigh the ash.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ELike weighing a human life\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Efalls away.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ERight now\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; you are not beside me\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Ebut rain is still running\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003Edown\u0026nbsp; \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026amp; out\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; side.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EThe credits were running \u0026amp; you said\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EI knew there’d be a Tom Waits song\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; sad voice in\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; F major.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; You stub out your smoke.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003EWe turn off the TV.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ERuby Porter\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;*\u003Cbr \/\u003ERuby will be one of the readers taking part in Central City Library's upcoming\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/EN\/Events\/Events\/Pages\/adayintheirshoes.aspx\"\u003E\"A day in their shoes: the refugee experience\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Friday 29 April, 11am-2pm).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6436267973642434452\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/popping-up-for-refugees-on-world-poetry.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/6436267973642434452"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/6436267973642434452"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2016\/03\/popping-up-for-refugees-on-world-poetry.html","title":"Popping up for refugees on World Poetry Day"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-jkCFn4hqvNk\/VvUaFR23ttI\/AAAAAAAABHo\/vRrYLFbRQ0kp36Y3I8I3ffHWF_ma8cGLw\/s72-c\/a%2Bpoem%2Bfor%2Brefugees.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-1188345090089707780"},"published":{"$t":"2015-05-28T17:42:00.001+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-29T16:00:03.622+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Anna Jackson"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Auckland Writers Festival"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWF"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"awf15"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Daniel Mendelsohn"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"poetry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Simon"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"translation"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\"Translation Gymnastics\" at AWF15, with Anna Jackson and Daniel Mendelsohn"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/03\/EVENT19AWF.jpg\" height=\"212\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThanks to Simon Comber from Readers Services for this guest post.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETom Bishop facilitated an engaging discussion between American writer and critic Daniel Mendelsohn and New Zealand poet Anna Jackson. Together the speakers explored the different ways a writer could interact with a bygone poetic voice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs it turned out, only Mendelsohn was an actual translator of poetry, having spent twelve years working on his acclaimed translations of the poems of C.P Cavafy (\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb2163853__SCollected%20poems%20Lw%3D%3D%20C.P.%20Cavafy%20__Orightresult__X1?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003ECollected poems\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/i\u003E. The first section of Jackson’s recent volume of poetry, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/search\/C__SI%2C%20Clodia%2C%20and%20other%20portraits%20Lw%3D%3D%20Anna%20Jackson.__Orightresult__U?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003EI, Clodia and other portraits\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E, had been named after (and written in the imagined voice of), the love interest of the famous Roman poet of antiquity Catullus. Whilst Mendelsohn was deeply familiar with Cavafy in the original Greek, Jackson was only familiar with Catullus in translation. She spoke of her initial exposure through Ben Jonson’s Renaissance era translations, and C.K Stead’s resetting of Catullus poems to Auckland’s West Coast beaches.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the discussion made clear, there were still many similarities to be found between the two guests and their respective relationships to poetry of the past. Mendelsohn noted that when in the midst of working on translations, you were both responding to and engaging with the poetic voice. There was an aspect of being “reactive” to both the original text and previous translations. Aspects of this, and of the wonderful word Mendelsohn liked to use to describe his role, “adaptrix”, could just as easily have been applied to Jackson’s relationship to Catullus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the midst of their research, both writers couldn’t help but be laying a palimpsest over what other translators were gesturing towards, although, inevitably, only Mendelsohn would ever find himself making alterations between the release of the hard and softcover versions of his translations. Jackson on the other hand liked to joke that, as more of an imaginative adaptor than a translator, her “translation” would always be the most perfect. \u003Ci\u003EI, Clodia\u003C\/i\u003E simultaneously spoke back to and used the voice of Catullus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPerhaps the Homeric image Mendelsohn fondly recalled from the tales of Odysseus sums up the activity that both writers were trying to articulate during this discussion. When Odysseus ventures to the Underworld he recognises his mother and repeatedly tries to hug her, but as she is only a shade, his arms find no solid body to wrap around. Mendelsohn was implying that both his and Jackson’s work was mirrored in this scene. Both Catullus and Cavafy are gone from the world, but through the work of the “adaptrix”, their spirits, and their voices, remain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--\u003Ci\u003ESimon\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/assets\/themes\/writersfestival\/images\/logo.svg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Auckland Writers Festival\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/assets\/themes\/writersfestival\/images\/logo.svg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1188345090089707780\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/translation-gymnastics-at-awf15-with.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/1188345090089707780"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/1188345090089707780"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/translation-gymnastics-at-awf15-with.html","title":"\"Translation Gymnastics\" at AWF15, with Anna Jackson and Daniel Mendelsohn"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-1801433572440921043"},"published":{"$t":"2015-05-25T17:23:00.000+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-29T16:05:20.841+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Auckland Writers Festival"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWF"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"awf15"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Carol Ann Duffy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Claire G"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"poetry"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Carol Ann Duffy at AWF15"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Duffy_Carol_AnnAWF1.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003Cimg alt=\"Auckland Writers Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/assets\/themes\/writersfestival\/images\/logo.svg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003E“You don’t get to be Britain’s poet laureate by having a tin ear,\" notes Claire G of Grey Lynn Library, who relished the chance to hear and see the multiple-award-winning Carol Ann Duffy, and tells us about it in this guest post.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere she is in Auckland at last, netting elusive truths as a skilled gillie might a slippery fish. Without fuss.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECarol Ann Duffy stands at the mike and reads – from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=0330372211\/summary.html\u0026amp;client=elgar\u0026amp;type=rn12\"\u003EThe World’s Wife\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Mrs Midas, Mrs Tiresias, Mrs Darwin), from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb2148262__S%09%20Rapture%20Lw%3D%3D%20Carol%20Ann%20Duffy.__Orightresult__U__X4?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003ERapture \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E(Text, Tea, Row, Syntax, Art) and from \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/search\/C__SThe%20bees%20Lw%3D%3D%20Carol%20Ann%20Duffy.__Orightresult__U?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003EThe Bees\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E (Mrs Schofield’s GCSE, Premonitions, The Counties). Some of us have previously read these poems ourselves but we’re spellbound.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe talks a little, sitting across from broadcaster John Campbell, who leans forward as she just perceptibly leans back. She somehow – invisibly – holds that eager puppy at bay, tolerating his fond effusions without letting him lick her face.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“God I can’t recall when I was so nervous,” he tells us, and her. “Holy ****!” He indicates the bottle by his chair and the glasses of some dark liquid that he’s requested for himself and our guest.  He claims, a little later, to have discovered a twinkle in the eyes of the black-clad, pale-faced poet. And “God damn it, Carol Ann,” he implores at one stage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe knew she’d be wonderful with words and she is: you don’t get to be Britain’s poet laureate by having a tin ear. What we don’t expect are her silences. They are magisterial, magnificent – all the more so for occurring at a weekend that is essentially a talkfest, in which even the breaks between sessions are abuzz with conversations. The people who’ve filled the Aotea Centre’s ASB Theatre to hear her are hanging on her every word, but on her pauses too. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Do you ever think, ‘God, Carol Ann, that’s good’?” asks John Campbell. (He’s just echoed, in a way that indicates he finds it marvellous, one of the lines from her reading of Mrs Midas.) For quite the longest time, she says nothing in reply. Then, \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“No.” Another pause. “I was never quite sure about that one, actually,” she adds, in her northern-not-quite-Scottish accent. The repeated line has Mr Midas – the man with that golden touch – spitting out corn kernels like rich people’s teeth. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe whole ‘Mrs Midas’ poem might have taken two or three weeks to write, its creator says. “A lot of things come together before you put pen to paper.... There’s a lot of silence beforehand.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a way, that short work and its companions in \u003Ci\u003EThe World’s Wife\u003C\/i\u003E (1999) were forty years in the making. At school Carol Ann Duffy was taught about the figures from classical myth and legend, on the basis that they might be useful. They never were, so eventually she set them to work in poetry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe reads next from \u003Ci\u003ERapture \u003C\/i\u003E(2005). This collection records a love affair from beginning to end by way of sonnets, which she describes as “kind of the little black dress of poetry”. Barely perceptibly – some might say sexily – she moves as she speaks. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“How true is it?” John Campbell asks. “Does it need to be true? Does it matter?”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor those who are desperate to see the personal in the poems, she agrees it’s there, but it’s like “the sand in the oyster that produces the pearl” – a simile she also uses in her (ever so slightly) more candid \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/saturday\/20150516\"\u003Einterview with Kim Hill\u003C\/a\u003E on National Radio the previous day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECarol Ann Duffy doesn’t discuss the affair. She is famous for being as mean with autobiographical detail, or gossip, as she is generous in the promotion of poetry, poets and other good causes such as public libraries, books in prisons. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJ.C. is leaning forward again, his hand extended like (but less languorously than) that of a figure in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Finally, the creator of \u003Ci\u003ERapture \u003C\/i\u003Ereaches out and touches his hand with her own. “I’m fine now,” she deadpans, looking him in the eye.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt question time people, including the playwright Roger Hall whom John Campbell enthusiastically introduces, leap to the proffered mikes. The laureate puts down – does she? – someone who asks a question to which he should perhaps already know the answer. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the last questioner wants to know about \u003Ci\u003EThe Dolphins\u003C\/i\u003E, republished in \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb2635004__SNew%20selected%20poems%20%3A%201984-2004%20Lw%3D%3D%20by%20Carol%20Ann%20Duffy.__Orightresult__U__X4?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003ENew Selected Poems 1984–2004\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E. Carol Ann Duffy explains that she once saw captive dolphins giving a public performance and as a result “felt very screwed up... about these poor creatures being forced to do tricks.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow could she not?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--\u003Ci\u003EClaire G\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1801433572440921043\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/awf-2015-carol-ann-duffy.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/1801433572440921043"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/1801433572440921043"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/awf-2015-carol-ann-duffy.html","title":"Carol Ann Duffy at AWF15"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-6284295165734355969"},"published":{"$t":"2015-05-25T16:34:00.000+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-03-29T16:15:35.094+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Auckland Writers Festival"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWF"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"awf15"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ella"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Greg O'Brien"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"New Zealand literature"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"poetry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Whale Years"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Greg O'Brien and \"Whale Years\" at AWF15"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/03\/OBrien_GregAWFCORRECT.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cimg alt=\"Auckland Writers Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/assets\/themes\/writersfestival\/images\/logo.svg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cb\u003E“Mariners read the ocean much as you would a book. Each wave a page.”\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThanks to Ella from Readers Services for this guest post.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the Auckland Writers Festival last week I descended into the belly of the great whale that is the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o\u0026nbsp;Tāmaki to hear Greg O'Brien speak about\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb2995274\"\u003EWhale Years\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;his latest book of poetry, and the journeys and experiences in the seas of the South Pacific that have informed the collection and left an indelible mark on his prolific artistic output.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreg O'Brien is a man of many talents. Well known as a poet and writer, as well as a visual artist, he's also known to be a bit of a “cultural odd job man”. Some of the odd jobs he's been involved in over the years include curating and writing about art; and importantly, advocating for the environment, our special place in the Pacific and the people and creatures that live within it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELately he has been preoccupied, or self admittedly obsessed by whales, even though he has never been lucky enough to see one in reality, and wonders if maybe he prefers it that way. He likes to explore ideas of fantasy and the subconscious in his work, and it would seem to be the intangibility and elusiveness of these ocean dwellers that appeal to his active imagination.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe hour was a meandering exploration of our oceans, our environment and the life that exists within them, including enthusiastic readings from \u003Ci\u003EWhale Years\u003C\/i\u003E, beautiful images, videos and tall tales from Greg's travels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreg O'Brien has been writing and musing on whales ever since his 2011 voyage with a rag tag group of artists on\u0026nbsp;the ship HMNZS\u0026nbsp;Otago, \u0026nbsp;which followed the migratory routes of whales to the most remote part of New Zealand, the Kermadec islands, and on to Tonga.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese experiences inspired something in Greg and the eight other artists on board, something that O'Brien admits he found hard to shake. The artists -- image makers, writers and poets, designers, a film maker and a sound artist -- took on their roles as ambassadors for the ocean with enthusiasm, producing fascinating imaginative responses to this experience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe spirit of exploration, and collaboration that developed from this journey was present throughout the hour as Greg O'Brien introduced the audience to some of the work that came out of the trip. John Pule's etchings of imagined flora and fauna, Robin White's beautiful collaborative tapa works and Fiona Hall's sculptures, chosen to represent Australia in this year's Venice Biennale, were just a few of the many intriguing works that illustrated his poems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe were brought back to reality when Greg started talking cold hard facts and the environmental purpose of this trip really hit home. In October 2011, a few months after the artists returned from their journey, this region was affected by the horrifying Rena disaster and the fate of the area became even more precarious.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis was a memorable talk which left me with much to mull over as I emerged, rather dazed, out into busy Wellesley St, images of whales still swimming through my mind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-- \u003Ci\u003EElla\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.studioj.co.nz\/kermadec_exhibition\/pule_slideshow\/big_pics\/03.jpg\" height=\"320\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EJohn Pule, Kermadec Exhibition (www.studioj.co.nz)\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Whale Years\" src=\"http:\/\/booknotes-unbound.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Whale-Years.jpg\" height=\"200\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"141\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWhale Years\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6284295165734355969\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/awf15-greg-obriens-whale-years.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/6284295165734355969"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/6284295165734355969"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/awf15-greg-obriens-whale-years.html","title":"Greg O'Brien and \"Whale Years\" at AWF15"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-8119679621497319261"},"published":{"$t":"2015-03-30T19:45:00.004+13:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-11-30T23:25:49.173+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Karen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"poetry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tomas Tranströmer"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\"I moved in the great mystery\": Tomas Tranströmer 1931-2015"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRG0HRzmXw_XdLPeEmcWPBGzx3WX4OXUhW0Fs1qR8iQxiG9E5yO5Q\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRG0HRzmXw_XdLPeEmcWPBGzx3WX4OXUhW0Fs1qR8iQxiG9E5yO5Q\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETomas Tranströmer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature not quite four years ago, died last Friday, aged 83. When the announcement of the Prize was made, I had never read a poem by him. But what a name! Did we have a book of his poems? We did! A 30-year-old \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1525129\"\u003ESelected Poems\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/i\u003Ewas squirrelled away in the good old Central City Library basement. Oh no, actually, not squirrelled away any longer: four quicker-on-the-draw readers had formed a queue within hours of the announcement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ESo I turned to the newer publications which Auckland Libraries had quickly ordered \u003Ci\u003Eau complet, \u003C\/i\u003Eand chose\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2356539\"\u003EThe great enigma: new collected poems\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Efrom 2006. The fact that the diacritical marks weren't showing correctly on the catalogue, so that the name Tranströmer appeared as Transtr?mer is\u0026nbsp;not the only reason I chose it, but it certainly cinched the deal. How could I resist someone described thus:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Transtr?mer's dominant moods are almost warily inward-turning...\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs well as being a great poet (as I discovered for myself when the book arrived, and you will discover if you keep reading), Tomas Tranströmer was also a noted entomologist, a beetle collector. There is even a\u0026nbsp;beetle named for him, in an 80th birthday tribute. The “Tranströmers tornbagge” was discovered on the island of Gotland, in the Baltic Sea, where\u0026nbsp;Tranströmer spent his summers as a boy. You can't help getting a whiff of Nabokov. The image in my mind's eye, in fact, is a Nabokov who never left a St Petersburg which never stopped being St Petersburg, as Max von Sydow would interpret him in an Ingmar Bergman film.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf the beetle, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/tomastranstromer.net\/2012\/06\/08\/1304\/\"\u003ETomas Tranströmer website\u003C\/a\u003E tells us \"Its habits are still unknown\". The Great Enigma.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/transtromer.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/00f78873900f6dda16.jpg?w=558\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;\"\u003EMordellistena transtroemeriana\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Ephoto: tomastranstomer.net\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Great Enigma \u003C\/i\u003Eincludes a wonderful piece of autobiographical prose called\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EMemories Look at Me, \u003C\/i\u003Ein which Tranströmer recalls (as well as his early visits to the library) his love of beetle-collecting:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I moved in the great mystery. I learned that the ground was alive, that there was an infinite world of creeping and flying things living their own rich life without paying the least regard to us. I caught a fraction of a fraction of that world and pinned it down in my boxes... they're sitting there, those insects. As if biding their time.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so, to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/02\/25\/gm_338831ex2-1-_custom.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Woman in Blue Reading a Letter by Vermeer\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/02\/25\/gm_338831ex2-1-_custom.jpg\" height=\"320\" title=\"\" width=\"268\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E(Image: npr.org)\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EVermeer\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eby Tomas Tranströmer (translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton, from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EThe Great Enigma)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ENo protected world... Just behind the wall the noise begins,\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Ethe inn\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Ewith laughter and bickering, rows of teeth, tears, the din of bells\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Eand the insane brother-in-law, the death-bringer we all must tremble for.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe big explosion and the tramp of rescue arriving late,\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Ethe boats preening themselves on the straits, the money creeping down in the wrong man's pocket\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Edemands stacked on demands\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Egaping red flowerheads sweating premonitions of war.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAnd through the wall into the clear studio\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Einto the second that's allowed to live for centuries.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EPictures that call themselves \u003Ci\u003EThe Music Lesson\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Eor \u003Ci\u003EWoman in Blue Reading a Letter \u003C\/i\u003E--\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Eshe's in her eighth month, two hearts kicking inside her.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EOn the wall behind is a wrinkled map of Terra Incognita.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EBreathe calmly... An unknown blue material is nailed to the chairs.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe gold studs flew in with incredible speed\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Eand stopped abruptly\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Eas if they had never been other than stillness.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EEars sing from depth or height.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIt's the pressure from the other side of the wall.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIt makes each fact float\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Eand steadies the brush.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIt hurts to go through walls, it makes you ill\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Ebut is necessary.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe world is one. But walls...\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAnd the wall is part of yourself --\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Ewe know or we don't know but it's true for us all\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Eexcept for small children. No walls for them.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe clear sky has leaned against the wall.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIt's like a prayer to the emptiness.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAnd the emptiness turns its face to us\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003Eand whispers,\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\"I am not empty, I am open.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;-- Karen\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8119679621497319261\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/i-moved-in-great-mystery-tomas.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/8119679621497319261"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/8119679621497319261"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/i-moved-in-great-mystery-tomas.html","title":"\"I moved in the great mystery\": Tomas Tranströmer 1931-2015"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-3098625844094746056"},"published":{"$t":"2015-03-25T21:00:00.000+13:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-04-04T12:48:37.467+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Karen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"poetry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"World Poetry Day"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"World Poetry Day: Untie that poem!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I ask them to take a poem\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand hold it up to the light\u003Cbr \/\u003Elike a color slide\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eor press an ear against its hive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI say drop a mouse into a poem\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand watch him probe his way out,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eor walk inside the poem's room\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand feel the walls for a light switch.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI want them to waterski\u003Cbr \/\u003Eacross the surface of a poem\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewaving at the author's name on the shore.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut all they want to do\u003Cbr \/\u003Eis tie the poem to a chair with rope\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand torture a confession out of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey begin beating it with a hose\u003Cbr \/\u003Eto find out what it really means.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-- \"Introduction to poetry\" by Billy Collins\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom \u003Ci\u003EThe apple that astonished Paris, \u003C\/i\u003E1996\u003Cbr \/\u003E(University of Arkansas Press)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you've ever had the traumatic experience of witnessing this being done to a poem, and especially if a residual sac of trauma is still bobbing around in your psyche, I recommend a dose of World Poetry Day. World Poetry Day has been around for almost a hundred years, is celebrated on March 21, and although other purposes are read into it, worthily (most notably UNESCO's adopting it to promote the saving of endangered languages), at its heart it's still about people sharing poetry with each other.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn our modern world, where few of us have anything like a village square in our lives, a good place to do this is on Twitter, not least because in cyberspace the day stretches out to become two or three, with people jumping on and off according to their time zones and whatever idiosyncratic hours they keep.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere are some of my best catches from the World Poetry Day twitscape. I'm sure one of them will get you waterskiing!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis first one needs a bit of introduction. To celebrate WPD, cafés around the world invited people to swap a poem for a coffee, a new initiative which I hope will spread (do you read me, Running \u0026nbsp;Horse Café?) and become a tradition. Here's The Guardian tweeting the phenomenon:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Q90rGPx5kb4\/VREyOuBcwLI\/AAAAAAAAA5g\/7qChSx2Xge8\/s1600\/Coffee.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Q90rGPx5kb4\/VREyOuBcwLI\/AAAAAAAAA5g\/7qChSx2Xge8\/s1600\/Coffee.JPG\" height=\"318\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ENow join me in a hats off to poet Ian Duhig (@ianduhig) for this masterpiece:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-XJcqERDKISk\/VREnUrqsn0I\/AAAAAAAAA4Q\/U-YuYAgGPOw\/s1600\/Coffee%2Bspoons%2BWPD.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-XJcqERDKISk\/VREnUrqsn0I\/AAAAAAAAA4Q\/U-YuYAgGPOw\/s1600\/Coffee%2Bspoons%2BWPD.JPG\" height=\"223\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003EAnd this isn't bad either:\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-SXPwV04MIjc\/VRE7Asc86nI\/AAAAAAAAA6Q\/4b2Fs1EeO9Q\/s1600\/pub.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-SXPwV04MIjc\/VRE7Asc86nI\/AAAAAAAAA6Q\/4b2Fs1EeO9Q\/s1600\/pub.JPG\" height=\"111\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKeats-Shelley House (@Keats_Shelley) has long been one of my favourite twitter accounts, and they didn't disappoint:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-NV8kcm6s4rg\/VREtsLTYXyI\/AAAAAAAAA5E\/TCBsWJw1LSM\/s1600\/Keats%2BShelley.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-NV8kcm6s4rg\/VREtsLTYXyI\/AAAAAAAAA5E\/TCBsWJw1LSM\/s1600\/Keats%2BShelley.JPG\" height=\"368\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECouldn't be a poetry day without Sylvia; I especially liked the choice of poem:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-OHggpZllbCY\/VRElU9psemI\/AAAAAAAAA4E\/VNVtZTIoMKw\/s1600\/Plath%2BWPD%2B-%2BCopy.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-OHggpZllbCY\/VRElU9psemI\/AAAAAAAAA4E\/VNVtZTIoMKw\/s1600\/Plath%2BWPD%2B-%2BCopy.JPG\" height=\"246\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EHieroglyphics!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iZVqvvZA5fM\/VREr2jKFNXI\/AAAAAAAAA44\/vujRM1C6Bhk\/s1600\/British%2BMuseum.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-iZVqvvZA5fM\/VREr2jKFNXI\/AAAAAAAAA44\/vujRM1C6Bhk\/s1600\/British%2BMuseum.JPG\" height=\"312\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFerlinghetti, one of my first loves (and his own hieroglyph: \"the arrow\"):\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NSS2ylaDwmc\/VREwv_oqKJI\/AAAAAAAAA5Q\/w9NcybVvZGI\/s1600\/Ferlinghetti.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NSS2ylaDwmc\/VREwv_oqKJI\/AAAAAAAAA5Q\/w9NcybVvZGI\/s1600\/Ferlinghetti.JPG\" height=\"73\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/CAzwYlIUUAA3RqQ.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Embedded image permalink\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/CAzwYlIUUAA3RqQ.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EA plum blossom from Basho, the master:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/--poJaIdu5zE\/VRExlDSY2OI\/AAAAAAAAA5Y\/Mke6P8BI534\/s1600\/Basho.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/--poJaIdu5zE\/VRExlDSY2OI\/AAAAAAAAA5Y\/Mke6P8BI534\/s1600\/Basho.JPG\" height=\"217\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMandy, do you know what James Dickey said about Robert Frost?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Of all the haunted artists, Robert Frost is the most haunted of all\":\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-J_RcKbrQAX0\/VRE1G_Ar0vI\/AAAAAAAAA54\/8LF29bXLpVQ\/s1600\/Robt%2BFrost.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-J_RcKbrQAX0\/VRE1G_Ar0vI\/AAAAAAAAA54\/8LF29bXLpVQ\/s1600\/Robt%2BFrost.JPG\" height=\"233\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003EClever as hell from The Grove Bookshop (@GroveBookshop):\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hUPkQqunEds\/VRE2hi_XHmI\/AAAAAAAAA6E\/2GC4GS1sGcM\/s1600\/Richard%2BIII.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hUPkQqunEds\/VRE2hi_XHmI\/AAAAAAAAA6E\/2GC4GS1sGcM\/s1600\/Richard%2BIII.JPG\" height=\"72\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand this was my contribution:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-rPc8u4Vv1b8\/VRE_BmNer0I\/AAAAAAAAA6c\/57s-hmVrbqw\/s1600\/Apollinaire.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-rPc8u4Vv1b8\/VRE_BmNer0I\/AAAAAAAAA6c\/57s-hmVrbqw\/s1600\/Apollinaire.JPG\" height=\"315\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EApollinaire's friends had this poem inscribed on his grave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhich makes me think of, \u0026nbsp;\"So long lives this, and this gives life to thee\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat better thought for a poetry day?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E--\u003Ci\u003EKaren\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Karen\/Desktop\/Plath%20WPD%20-%20Copy.JPG\" \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3098625844094746056\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/world-poetry-day-untie-that-poem.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3098625844094746056"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3098625844094746056"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/world-poetry-day-untie-that-poem.html","title":"World Poetry Day: Untie that poem!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Q90rGPx5kb4\/VREyOuBcwLI\/AAAAAAAAA5g\/7qChSx2Xge8\/s72-c\/Coffee.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});