Cutting the Clouds Towards.
Title:
Cutting the Clouds Towards.
Author:
Simpson, Matt.
ISBN:
9781846312908
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (76 pages)
Series:
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Contents:
Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Ship in a Bottle -- To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith -- At Sea with Mrs Meredith -- What Mr Meredith asked the Ship's Owner about Dick -- Mrs Meredith looks about her -- Mrs Meredith and Hobart Culture -- Mrs Meredith and Hunting -- Flora and Fossil -- Mrs Meredith goes a-Gypsying and enjoys a Barbecue -- The Merediths attend a Ceremony -- Mrs Meredith speaks of the Good Old Days of Privatisation . . . -- You Rambling Boys of Liverpool -- The Call of the Genes -- Dear Mrs Meredith -- Dear Mr Simpson -- On the Right Side of the Earth -- We meet at last -- I've been wanting to ask . . . -- Dear Mr Simpson -- Taking things in -- A Bummer -- Swanport -- And for the Record -- Fax from Launceston to Michael -- A Hasty Rejoinder -- Something you can't deny -- The Interview -- In Mount Field National Park -- News of a Death -- On the Answering Machine -- In Flowerdale -- Hadn't we the Gaiety? -- About as far as we can go -- Your art Mrs Meredith -- The Princess Theatre, Launceston, 18th October, 1995 -- Threads -- Journal entry forTuesday, 31st Oct. -- Dangerous I know -- A Poem for Wybalenna Chapel on Flinders Island -- Making an Exhibition -- A Last Glimpse -- Epilogue -- Melbourne Central Cemetery -- Select Bibliography.
Abstract:
The poems in this fifth collection of his poetry were written before, during and after Matt Simpson's two-month period as poet-in-residence at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania. Most of the poems are responses to encounters with the work and life of the mid-nineteenth-century writer and artist, Louisa Anne Meredith, who spent the first part of her life in Birmingham and who was already established as author and artist before, at the age of twenty-seven, she married her cousin, Charles, and emigrated to Australia. The Merediths were subsequently to spend most of the rest of their lives in Tasmania. Simpson follows Mrs Meredith there, creating an imaginative relationship with her and in his poetry (in the words of John Lucas in his Foreword to this book) 'exploring in different ways his sense of engagement with a person, a place, and, more remarkably, of hers and it with him. For among the most astonishing features of this intensely creative engagement is the way Mrs Me.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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