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Robert William Geoffrey Gray born 23 February 1945 is an Australian poet freelance writer and critic He has been described as an Imagist without a rival in the English speaking world and one of the contemporary masters of poetry in English. Creekwater journalgazette net Gray was born in Port Macquarie grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales He trained there as a journalist and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor advertising copywriter reviewer and buyer for bookshops His first book of poems Creekwater Journal was published in 1973. Book Creekwater journal entry As a poet Gray is most notable for his keen visual imagery and intensely observed landscapes His wide reading in and experience of East Asian cultures and thei Robert William Geoffrey Gray born 23 February 1945 is an Australian poet freelance writer and critic He has been described as an Imagist without a rival in the English speaking world and one of the contemporary masters of poetry in English. Creekwater Journal bookworm Gray was born in Port Macquarie grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales He trained there as a journalist and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor advertising copywriter reviewer and buyer for bookshops His first book of poems Creekwater Journal was published in 1973. Creekwater journalen As a poet Gray is most notable for his keen visual imagery and intensely observed landscapes His wide reading in and experience of East Asian cultures and their varieties of Buddhism is clear in many of the themes and forms he chooses to work in including for example haiku style free verse works Gray s essentially Australian response to nature is reinforced by what he sees as a commonsensical Eastern view of man as within nature rather than an agent removable from and capable of controlling nature Martin Langford has written that Gray s poetry captures the Australian ambivalence towards their own landscapes No one captures better that dual sense of our fascination with the physical world and our dismay at its indifference Gray has been a writer in residence at Meiji University in Tokyo and at several universities throughout Australia including Geelong College in 1982 From February March 2012 Gray lectured at Campion College in New South Wales. Creekwater Journal poetry foundation With Geoffrey Lehmann he edited two anthologies The Younger Australian Poets and Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century and he is the editor of Selected Poems by Shaw Neilson and Drawn from Life the journals of the painter John Olsen 2008 saw the much anticipated publication of his memoir The Land I Came Through Last. Creekwater journalctl In 2012 his collected poems was published under the title Cumulus As with each of his poetic publications it includes all that Gray wishes to preserve of his earlier poetry and many newer poems. Book Creekwater journal gazette LCCN permalink site_link Robert d 1945 The Younger Australian poets c1983 tchokengtitiktitikchokeng Robert Gray LC data base 12 6 83 hdg Gray Robert 1945 site_link Creekwater JournalThe blurb on the back of the book Creekwater Journal by Robert Gray says Creekwater Journal is outstanding for its intense visual awareness for the clarity and austerity of its writing and for its understated feeling I definitely agree on all three points and I was actually surprised by the simplicity of the poems I m not sure what was happening with poetry in Australia during the 1970s but I m sure this collection stood out at the time. Book Creekwater journaling Here are the opening lines of the first poem in the collection Journey the North CoastNext thing I wake up in a swaying bunkas though aboard a clipper at seaand it s the train that booms and cracks it tears the wind apart Here s the opening lines of the second poem KangarooThat hungry facemoves on grassthe way an artist s pencilretouchesshadows Favourite poems Back There several of the unnamed poems listed as 18 poems Dusk I go to scytheunder the trees at the front gate The pale moths rising The rain white grapesAnd this cobweb odour ofthe wet dust Smokestack evening sky and the smoke a woman s long hairas she pauses underwater Also The Pine An interesting very Australian collection Poetry Poetry is special There s something about the way it forms how it draws you in until every fibre of your being feels attached to each word and god Gray you ve gone and done this It s been a long time since I ve written anything here but the few times I have isn t because I need the world to read my opinion but because I want to attempt to capture how reading something such as Gray s poetry made me FEEL. Book Creekwater journal entry Oh how I would love to sit down and have a cuppa with Gray and talk about the infinite beauty of the landscape that walks with us throughout life But for now I thankyou Gray for creating a journal that not only speaks to my core but teaches me how to breathe in the world that surrounds me Poetry An extraordinary and original voice in Australian contemporary lyrical poetry Gray writes with the deft brush strokes of a Japanese master calligrapher Recommended for all readers of poetry Poetry
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.: Creekwater journalctl He has won numerous awards including the Adelaide Arts Festival award and the New South Wales and Victorian Premiers awards for poetry In 1990 he received the Patrick White Award