tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post4446606710316005237..comments2024-03-16T16:28:06.374+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: Late Poetry Day Event at TitirangiDr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-47780159366521629942011-08-07T09:07:37.417+12:002011-08-07T09:07:37.417+12:00Dear Richard,
I don't know if they're sti...Dear Richard,<br /><br />I don't know if they're still doing the 3 for $20 deal, but it might be worth dropping them a line at the Lopdell House Gallery to find out (there are contact details on their website:<br />http://www.lopdell.org.nz/contact.html).<br /><br />I'm sure there are still individual copies available at $10 each, though. Having all three is best, though.Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-88203612139405447432011-08-07T01:38:03.106+12:002011-08-07T01:38:03.106+12:00I just saw what I had missed... $10 to $20 etc tha...I just saw what I had missed... $10 to $20 etc that is good. And $20 for 3? I suppose they have all sold out?Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-67656753652483951612011-08-07T01:34:54.679+12:002011-08-07T01:34:54.679+12:00What were the prices of the books offered Jack? Th...What were the prices of the books offered Jack? They all look interesting but I would feel I "should" buy them all. <br /><br />And I do that too much on my rather disappearing income...remember when I once (in the days I used to avail myself copiously and shamelessly) of the booze and victuals at the AU!!) a bit (munted?)I even bought poetry book that was, well, (author not to be mentioned) not up to scratch! <br /><br />Interesting report.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-12558265905483800712011-08-07T01:29:07.206+12:002011-08-07T01:29:07.206+12:00Her eyesight has been that way for some years. Hen...Her eyesight has been that way for some years. Hence of course her book "As Far as I Can See."<br /><br />Indirectly (as she, Roger Horrocks and W Curnwo wer letures when I was at Auck. University) she (or her via her lectures and her book on Zukofsky etc) got me interested in writing a kind of "epic"...somewhat or vaguely the manner of say Pound, Olson or Zukofsky and others...I didn't really get very far though. <br /><br />But it is a tragedy indeed.<br /><br />But reading Oliver Sacks he describes how people do adapt amazingly to blindness. There was even a case of a man who blindness was corrected (or reversed) by an operation (he had been blind for years) and it lead to his complete deterioration and self-destruction and depression, malaise etc as he had adapted well to being blind (and was quite happy) but someone (wrongly) talked him into changing).<br /><br />Rene Harrison has been almost totally blind now for some years. It was I got on his case and brow beat him to do something with his life and study and he now has a PhD and is tutoring at AU.<br /><br />To divagate more...in my EYELIGHT it is or should be (to so many of my keen readers and fans!!) that I am obsessed on one level with eyes and sight. This is for many reasons but of course a big one is that my son had his eye smashed out by the police.<br /><br />But to take that wider there is the general tragedy of blindness and the wider meaning of "sight" - insight etc etcRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-59067831844654011272011-08-01T11:51:14.790+12:002011-08-01T11:51:14.790+12:00Yes, it seems a supreme and cruel irony that so vi...Yes, it seems a supreme and cruel irony that so visual and precise a poet and scholar should be robbed of her eyesight so young. All I can say is that Michele is fighting it every step of the way ... Her new guide-dog Olive is a great help, of course.Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-80256072213384279262011-08-01T09:26:47.759+12:002011-08-01T09:26:47.759+12:00I am sorry to learn that Leggott's eyesight is...I am sorry to learn that Leggott's eyesight is deteriorating. I remember her telling the wonderful story of how she made out type marks from The Beaches on the paper Hide used to write some of her prose, and the thrill of discovering and deciphering those semi-invisible indentations - it has stayed with me.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.com