harvey's journal

We had around 30 people for the Poetry Café last night. It was an unexpected treat to hear The Spines again after so many years. I read two recent poems 'Corporate identity' and 'Leaving the moon.'

I told a good friend about the Factory catalogue I'd been reading and he said "Well, Tony Wilson died on Friday.' And indeed he had. So it goes. The Guardian has many obituaries.

I've just finished Allen Curnow's The Bells of St. Bells. I have the sensation reading Curnow that I'm listening to a person think in a very controlled, though associative, way. There's a movement of thought that isn't sensation or 'stream of consciousness' but rather intellectual and also highly personal. Often something in the poems escapes or eludes me.

posted by harvey molloy @ 6:30 AM