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Martin Harrison Poems
- A Lecture On Focus All water is dusk, or light blenched. A ...
- The Red Gum A camera could catch it. Or a video. A painter ...
- Ode In April Moments of connection, of intimate attention...
- Isfahan That half-open amber eye fixed on you, the woman in ...
- First Glance At A Walking Part...
- February Night Song You, the world, the house, but tonight ...
- Cine The shirtless young man pushes (blue tint, brown) a ...
Martin Harrison (born in 1949) is an Australian poet.
He published poems and limited edition books in London and New Zealand before his first main collection, The Distribution of Voice (University of Queensland Press),appeared in Australia in 1993. In the 80s Harrison worked as a literary journalist and reviewer as well as a producer for ABC Radio, where he was closely associated with sound art, new music and experimental radio work. His 1997 poetry collection, The Kangaroo Farm (Paperbark Press) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premiers Award, and his 2001 collection Summer (Paperbark Press) won the Wesley Michel Wright Award for poetry. A selected poems, Wild Bees (University ... more »
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A Lecture On Focus
All water is dusk, or light blenched. A mauve shade,
some water is so large it fills up the lens,
becoming mere thought occurring here or there
as if in a place which was chosen for it,
on a surface, in a container, inside an edge.
Close-up, green bars of water greet an eye blinking
as it turns transparent, partial, on moving skin.
Here a body lunges on, diminishing, in shocks.
Some water is a mask, the cover of a cave
which has no walls and which flows, unawares,
round points, indentations, grooves, visages.
Surfacing faces look out like people in a ...
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