After delivering the budget

The Australian Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, has just delivered the annual budget, and straightaway he sat down and wrote this poem:

Someone will find out, someone will know

John Burnside: The Night Ferry

Summer river

Jack Kerouac – Haiku

 

 

Shall I say no?

-fly rubbing

his back legs

 

 

In my medicine cabinet

the winter fly

has died of old age

 

The summer chair

rocking by itself

in the blizzard

 

Evening coming-

the office girl

unloosing her scarf

 

 

from Barbara Louise Ungar  in the Haiku Path , The Haiku Society of America 1968 – 1988

Vale – Ania Walwicz

Ania Walwicz was the first writing teacher I ever had. About thirty-five years ago she was teaching in a Community Centre in Clifton Hill, even though she was a graduate of The Victorian College of the Arts. She had come to Australia from Poland as a child and always retained a strong accent. A tiny woman, she was known for her public performances, often wearing a large black beard.  She was a true original, a Bohemian rebel, always unafraid to challenge conventional ideas.

Mrs Midas – Carol Ann Duffy

 

Louise Gluck wins Nobel Prize

Recently we posted Louise Gluck’s poem Lamium and we’ve also posted excerpts from other poems in her collection The Wild Iris. She’s just won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

Kay Ryan

Lamium