Phillip HallToday I would like to take part in an original read-a-thon (that I am calling): a picture, a thousand words, & all that jazz...
This is a wonderful concept dreamt up by the incredible & generous Nigel: @ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk
Books referred to: *Ted Hughes, 'The Iron Man', (illustrated by Chris Mould, Faber) *Clement C. Moore, 'The Night Before Christmas', (illustrated by Ella Beech, The Folio Society) *Maureen Walsh, 'May Gibbs: Mother of the Gumnuts: Her Life & Work', (Angus & Roberson) *May Gibbs, 'Gumnut Classics: The Famous Gumnut Adventures, (Angus & Robertson) *Walter McVitty, 'Dorothy Wall: The Creator of Blinky Bill: Her Life & Work', (Angus & Robertson) *Dorothy Wall, 'Blinky Bill: Selected Stories & Friends, (Angus & Robertson)
Wonderful BookTube Channels Referred to (for inspiring me to pursue the beauty of graphic novels):
a picture, a thousand words, & all that jazz...Phillip Hall2024-09-25 | Today I would like to take part in an original read-a-thon (that I am calling): a picture, a thousand words, & all that jazz...
This is a wonderful concept dreamt up by the incredible & generous Nigel: @ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk
Books referred to: *Ted Hughes, 'The Iron Man', (illustrated by Chris Mould, Faber) *Clement C. Moore, 'The Night Before Christmas', (illustrated by Ella Beech, The Folio Society) *Maureen Walsh, 'May Gibbs: Mother of the Gumnuts: Her Life & Work', (Angus & Roberson) *May Gibbs, 'Gumnut Classics: The Famous Gumnut Adventures, (Angus & Robertson) *Walter McVitty, 'Dorothy Wall: The Creator of Blinky Bill: Her Life & Work', (Angus & Robertson) *Dorothy Wall, 'Blinky Bill: Selected Stories & Friends, (Angus & Robertson)
Wonderful BookTube Channels Referred to (for inspiring me to pursue the beauty of graphic novels):
C. Gregory @CGRatedBooks Lindy @lindysmagpiereads
#booktube #kidsbooks #poetryMy Beautiful BooksPhillip Hall2024-10-14 | Today I would like to take part in another wonderful BookTube Tag: 'My Most Beautiful Books'.
This tag was created by: @HollyDunnDesign And I was tagged by the gloriously generous & bright, Pat @BookChatWithPat8668
PROMPTS & BOOKS REFERRED TO:
1/ A BOOK YOU BOUGHT BECAUSE OF THE COVER DESIGN & WONDER -Adrian Franklin, 'The Making of MONA', (Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books) -David Walsh, 'A Bone of Fact', (Picador)
2/ FAVOURITE DESIGN SERIES -Robert Fagels (translator) 'Homer: The IIiad & The Odyssey', (Penguin Classics: Deluxe Edition) -Emily Wilson (translator) 'Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey', (Norton)
3/ BEAUTIFUL DUST JACKETS -Francesca Stavrakopoulou, 'God: An Anatomy', (Picador) -Gail Crowther, 'Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton', (Gallery Books) -Jackie Wullschlager, 'Chagall: Love & Exile', (Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books) -Joshua Rivkin, 'Chalk: The Art & Erasure of Cy Twombly', (Melville House)
4/ NAKED HARDBACK: GORGEOUS WITH OR WITHOUT THE DUST JACKET -Catherine Grenier, 'Alberto Giacometti: A Biography', (Flammarion)
5/ BEAUTIFUL PAPERBACKS -Moya Pacey, 'Doggerland', (Recent Work Press) -Lucy Alexander, 'Strokes of Light', (Recent Work Press) -Stephanie Green, 'Breathing in Stormy Seasons', (Recent Work Press) -Shane Strange, 'All Suspicions Have Been Confirmed', (Recent Work Press)
*EVERYTHING DESIGNED BY SHANE STRANGE AT RECENT WORK PRESS (I AM SO LUCKY TO CALL RECENT WORK PRESS HOME FOR MY CURRENT COLLECTION)
6/ A NON-FICTION BOOK WITH A BEAUTIFUL COVER -Carrie Jenkins & Carla Nappi, 'UnInvited: Talking Back to Plato', (McGill-Queens University Press) -Katherine Rundell, 'Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old & Wise', (Bloomsbury)
7/ A BOOK WITH GREAT END PARERS & SPINE -Primo Levi, 'The Complete Works', (Liveright Publishing, a Division of Norton) -William Shakespeare, 'The Collected Plays', (The Folio Society)
I WOULD LIKE TO TAG THE FOLLOWING ENCOURAGING & AFFIRMATIVE BOOKTUBE CHANNELS TO TAKE PART IN THE FUN:
Meg @booksoffthebeatenpath Mark @book-ramble Charles Gregory @CGRatedBooks Stuart @stuartgriffin1001 Seanin @SeaninsShelf David @davidnovakreadspoetry Albert @AlbertTheConjugator Eleanor @theonlyrealproperty2567 Maeve @Maeve_Ever_BooksWe Have Liftoff: A Symphony TogetherPhillip Hall2024-09-20 | Today I would like to take part (again) in that wonderful read-a-thon: 'Framed in September'. I would like to share with you three poems that respond to the sublime music of Henryk Gorecki, Antonin Dvorak & Gustave Holst; & to the irreplaceable sculptures of Norma Redpath, Inge King & Margel Hinder.
*David Hurlston & Jane Eckett, 'Inge King: Constellation', (National Gallery of Victoria) *Sasha Grishin, 'The Art of Inge King: Sculptor', (MacMillan Art Publishing) *Ian Cornford, 'The Sculpture of Margel Hinder', (Phillip Matthews Book Publishers) *Phillip Hall, 'Cactus', (Recent Work Press)
I am in love with BookTube, & read-a-thons like this are an absolute blast, I am forever thankful & relieved.
#authortube #booktube #framedinseptemberI Am the Vine! (Bacchus in the Antipodes)Phillip Hall2024-09-17 | Today I share with you a sequence of ekphrastic poems from my current collection, 'Cactus' (Recent Work Press). This sequence responds to the potent presence of Vitalism in early/mid-twentieth century Sydney fine arts & poetry. If the sources are Henri Bergson & Friedrich Nietzsche then the (distinctly) odd conduit is Norman Lindsay. The vision is often a copy of Classical Revivalist , Art Deco, Symbolist & Art Nouveau tendencies. It impacted all the arts, but was especially important to painting, sculpture, photography & poetry. It is, in part, a reaction against Great War horrors, and is celebratory of life-affirming/energised bodies, impulse & sensation, but is also a great hater (& is typically anti-wowser, anti-Semitic, anti-feminist, anti-religion, anti-modernist, anti-nationalist...). It advocated strongly for concrete imagery & was opposed to obscurity & abstraction.
I Am the Vine! (Bacchus in the Antipodes)
*Prologue: When Jews-for-Jesus Call on the Oracle of Springwood * I: Springwood Olympus: Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) *II: Homer's Sorceress: Bertram MacKennal (1863-1931) * III: Goulburn Odysseus: Sydney Long (1871-1955) *IV: A Satyr's Thumbs-Down to a Laughless God: Frank Lynch (1895-1967) *V: Sunbaker: Max Dupain (1911-1992) *VI: The Boy Ares: Jack Lindsay (1900-1990) *Epilogue: Aphrodite's Renaissance: Judith Wright (1915-2000)
Books referred to: *Judith Wright, Collected Poems (Harper Collins) *Judith Wright, Half A Lifetime (Text Publishing) *Veronica Brady, South of My Days: A Biography of Judith Wright (Angus & Roberson) *Georgina Arnott, The Unknown Judith Wright (UWAP)
#authortube #booktube #framedinseptember
The wonderful & insightful hosts of #framedinseptember are:
@anotherbibliophilereads @lindysmagpiereads @HannahsBooks @heathergregg9975 @bouquinsbooksThe Monsters & The Book: BeowulfPhillip Hall2024-09-11 | Today I share with you Seamus Heaney's magnificent verse-translation of the Anglo-Saxon classic, 'Beowulf'. And I bask in the glory of ancient manuscripts now held in pride-of-place at The British Library in London, & Folio Society deluxe editions. Let's meet the monsters, & all those bookish treasures that illuminate their pride.
In this video, I also take part in a fabulous BookTube tag: 'Adventurers Assemble':
*This wonderful tag is the creation of John @DisquietandDragons-lh3zm *And I was tagged by: Albert @AlbertTheConjugator & *Pat @BookChatWithPat8668
*Prompt One: nom, nom, nom: Which companion would you choose to accompany you on a quest to keep you well fed & content?
*Prompt Two: I Know This One: Which companion would you choose to accompany you to a pub quiz?
*Prompt Three: Keep It Safe, Keep It Hidden: Which companion would you choose for their loyalty?
*Prompt Four: Got Your Back: Which companion would you choose for a fight?
*Prompt Five: Our Best Friend: Which non-human companion would you choose to accompany you on a quest?
Books Referred To:
*Seamus Heaney, 'Beowulf: A New Translation, (Faber) *Seamus Heaney, 'Beowulf: A New Translation, (The Folio Society) *Introduced by Janina Ramirez *Illustrated by Clive Hicks-Jenkins *J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Beowulf: A Translation & Commentary', (Harper Collins)
And I would like to tag the following wonderful & irreplaceable BookTubers to take part in the fun, either with this fabulous tag or with a reflection on a work of narrative poetry:
*David @davidnovakreadspoetry *Eleanor @theonlyrealproperty2567 *Keri @BookishAdventuresInWellbeing *Ruben @ToReadersItMayConcern *Ollie @cultureden *Emily @TheLinguistsLibrary *Debs @RaynorReadsStuff *Reney @BeyondBooks-wt5il *Gavin @GenreBooks23 *Meg @booksoffthebeatenpath *Arron @arronjameshook *C. Gregory @CGRatedBooks *Bren @brenboothjones *Hannah @HannahsBooks *Mark @book-ramble *Allen @bighardbooks770Beauty: Ancient Greek Tragedy, Fantasy & my Billy-Blue.Phillip Hall2024-09-06 | Today I would like to take part in another wonderful BookTube tag, 'Beauty in Books'.
This marvellous tag is the creation of:
*Emily @TheLinguistsLibrary & *Ruben @ToReadersItMayConcern *And I was tagged by Emily @TheLinguistsLibrary
PROMPT ONE: Beauty in Concept
*Ursula K. Le Guin, 'The Books of Earthsea', (Gollancz) *Ruth Fainlight & Robert J. Littman (translators), 'Sophocles: The Theban Plays', (The John Hopkins University Press) *Anne Carson (translator), 'An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides', (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
PROMPT TWO: Beauty in Opening Line
*J.R.R. Tolkien, 'The Hobbit', (The Folio Society) *'Agamemnon' by Aiskhylos, translated by Anne Carson, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) *'Bakkhai' by Euripides, translated by Anne Carson, (A New Directions Book)
PROMPT THREE: Beauty in Character
*Susan Cooper, 'The Dark is Rising Sequence', (Margaret K. McElderry Books) *And I meditate on the presentation of Klytaimestra by Anne Carson (translator) in 'An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides', (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
PROMPT FOUR: Beauty Amidst Pain
*Kazuo Ishiguro, 'The Buried Giant', (The Folio Society) * And I meditate on the juxtaposition of fortune & despair (fear & pity) in Greek Tragedy as presented by Anne Carson (translator) in 'An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides', (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
PROMPT FIVE: Beauty in Incompleteness
*J.R.R. Tolkien, 'The Silmarillion', (The Folio Society) *J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Beowulf: A Translation & Commentary', (Harper Collins) *Emily Hauser, 'How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature', (Princeton University Press)
PROMPT SIX: Beauty in Place
*Mervyn Peake, 'The Gormenghast Trilogy', (The Folio Society) *Anne Carson, 'Norma Jeane Baker of Troy', (A New Directions Paperback)
PROMPT SEVEN: Beauty in Time
*'Bakkhai' by Euripides, translated by Anne Carson, (A New Directions Book)
PROMPT EIGHT: Beauty in Catharsis
*'The Poetics' by Aristotle, translated by Stephen Halliwell, (Loeb Classical Library)
I would like to tag the following glorious channels to take part in this:
Reney @BeyondBooks-wt5il Gavin @GenreBooks23 Pat @BookChatWithPat8668 Eleanor @theonlyrealproperty2567 Mark @book-ramble Debs @RaynorReadsStuffHounded: Redemption in HeartachePhillip Hall2024-09-03 | Welcome to my small corner of BookTube. I really hope you enjoy your visit, & stick around with me for the ride. Today I would like to share the first two chapters from my forthcoming autobiography-in-verse, to be called 'Hounded'. This work deals with my bereavements, depression & dreadful loss, but it also celebrates the love that can only be found in a wagging tail. Today, I live in a tiny home with the love of my life, an ex-racer, rescue greyhound named Billy-Blue. And he has redeemed me. I am saved by a hound, by a speedster's long-haul dog-love, so now I want to get well, & save the day for him.
#authortube #booktube #poetryPhenomenal Women: Margaret Scott (poet), Gwen Harwood (poet) & Olga Masters (novelist)Phillip Hall2024-08-29 | Today I would like to take part in 'The Phenomenal Woman Book Tag'.This wonderful tag is the creation of Marilyn Maya Mendoza@MarilynMayaMendoza (a glorious celebration of her fourth year on BookTube), & I was tagged by Pat @BookChatWithPat8668.
PROMPT ONE: Favourite Women Authors:
*MARGARET SCOTT (poet & memoirist) Books Referred to: Margaret Scott, 'Changing Countries: On Moving From One Island To Another', (ABC Books)
* GWEN HARWOOD (poet) Books Referred To: Ann-Marie Priest, 'My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood', (La Trobe University Press) Gwen Harwood, 'Collected Poems: 1943-1995', (University of Queensland Press)
PROMPT TWO: Favourite Women Characters:
*MRS. DALLOWAY *ORLANDO
(When introducing my favourite female literary characters, I refer to a wonderful novel (in addition to the gems by Virginia Woolf) that features Mrs. Dalloway (& also Virginia Woolf actually). This is Michael Cunningham's, 'The Hours'.
PROMPT THREE: If you were the judge for a book prize, which female author would you award your prize?
*OLGA MASTERS (novelist, short story writer & journalist)
OLGA MASTERS' BOOKS THAT ARE REFERRED TO: *Julie Lewis, 'Olga Masters: A Lot of Living', (University of Queensland Press) *Deirdre Colemana, 'Olga Masters Reporting Home: Her Writings as a Journalist', (University of Queensland Press) *Olga Masters, 'The Home Girls', (Text Classics) *Olga Masters, 'Amy's Children', (Text Classics) *Olga Masters, 'Loving Daughters', (University of Queensland Press) *Olga Masters, 'A Long Time Dying', (University of Queensland Press) *Olga Masters, 'The Rose Fancier', (University of Queensland Press)
PROMPT FOUR: Tag some phenomenal women BookTubers:
Emily @TheLinguistsLibrary Eleanor @theonlyrealproperty2567 Hannah @HannahsBooks Meg @booksoffthebeatenpath Keri @BookishAdventuresInWellbeingA Twobulla Booktuber Tag: the inspirational & sublime, William Stafford (& friends)Phillip Hall2024-08-27 | Today, I would like to take part in two BookTuber tags:
1/ 'The Bookish Q&A' created by @Libib & I was tagged by the brilliant, C. Gregory @CGRatedBooks
2/ 'Let Me Introduce You' created by Melinda @awebofstories & I was tagged by the wonderful, Arron @arronjameshook
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN 'THE BOOKISH Q&A': *J.R.R. Tolkien, 'The Silmarillion', 'The Hobbit' & 'The Lord of the Rings' (all by The Folio Society) *Susan Cooper, 'The Dark is Rising Sequence' (Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster) *Madeline Miller, 'The Song of Achilles', (edition one by Bloomsbury Publishing, edition two by The Folio Society) *Arundhati Roy, 'The God of Small Things' & 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' (both by Random House) *Kazuo Ishiguro, 'The Buried Giant', (The Folio Society, & illustrated by Jana Heidersdorf)
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN 'LET ME INTRODUCE YOU': *William Stafford, 'The Way It Is: New & Selected Poems', (Graywolf Press) *Fred Marchant (ed.), 'Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, (Graywolf Press) *Tom Andrews (ed.), 'On William Stafford: The Work of Local Things', (The University of Michigan Press) *Kim Stafford, 'Early Morning: Remembering My Father', (Graywolf Press)
In this episode I refer to two men who were inspirational life-long pacifists like William Stafford. These men are: the English philosopher, Bertrand Russell; & the New Zealand poet, James K. Baxter.
The following generous, inclusive & inspirational BookTube channels are tagged to participate in one or both of these tags: *debs @RaynorReadsStuff *Gavin @GenreBooks23 *Emily @TheLinguistsLibrary *Keri @BookishAdventuresInWellbeing *Meg @booksoffthebeatenpath *Ruben @ToReadersItMayConcern *David @davidnovakreadspoetry *Reney @BeyondBooks-wt5il *Pat @BookChatWithPat8668
In Australian Aboriginal English, as spoken in the Gulf of Carpentaria (where I was so blessed to live & work for some years), the system of counting progresses as follows: onebulla, twobulla, threebulla, fourbulla, mob, pack, biggest pack.
In this video I refer to the biography of C.S. Lewis by a 'Wilson', this is of course, A.N. Wilson's majestic, 'C.S. Lewis: A Biography'. Wilson also wrote a terrific biography of Iris Murdoch, that mid-twentieth century novelist & moral philosopher, who was one of the earliest interpreters of Jean-Paul Sartre into English. I'm a big fan of Wilson's work. And I also refer to a philosopher named Elizabeth Anscombe, who once engaged with Lewis at a meeting of Oxford University's Socratic Club. Anscombe, along with Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch & Philippa Foot, were groundbreaking mid-twentieth century Analytic Philosophers. Recently, two terrific books have appeared on this group of friends: Benjamin Lipscomb's 'The Women Are Up To Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley & Iris Murdoch Revolutionised Ethics', & Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachael Wiseman's 'Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back To Life'.
I love BookTube, what a glorious & welcoming community, I feel so joyful!Write Your HeartachePhillip Hall2024-08-20 | Today I look at the confessional poetic. After providing some historical, literary & philosophical context, I share some of my own poetry that is informed by this engaging, dramatic & revealing voice.
*BOOKS REFERRED TO: *Robert Lowell, 'Collected Poems', (Faber) *Denise Levertov, 'New Selected Poems', (Bloodaxe Books) *W.D. Snodgrass, 'Not For Specialists: New & Selected Poems', (Waywiser) *Sylvia Plath, 'Collected Poems', (Faber) *Sylvia Plath, 'The Bell Jar', (The Folio Society) *Anne Sexton, 'Selected Poems', (Mariner Books) *John Berryman, 'Collected Poems: 1937-1971', (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
*Phillip Hall, 'Cactus', (Recent Work Press, 2021)
*POEMS FROM 'CACTUS' THAT ARE SHARED: *'Bacchus in Ruins' *'Hymns of Thanksgiving at the Existentialist Café' *'Unforgivable' *'Sulky' *'Gongoozler's Lament' *'One-legged Dog' *'Dark Matter' *'A Valetudinarian's 'Crisis' in a Time of COVID 19' *'Song of Songs'
#authortube #booktube #poetryThe Honest Booktuber TagPhillip Hall2024-08-18 | Today, I would like to take part in another BookTuber Tag, 'The Honest BookTuber'. I was tagged by the generous & welcoming, Meg @booksoffthebeatenpath And the tag was created by Harriet @HarrietRosie13
BookTube creators that I have found especially inspirational, generous & welcoming:
Debs @RaynorReadsStuff Gavin @GenreBooks23 Aaron @aaronfacer Emily @TheLinguistsLibrary Keri @BookishAdventuresInWellbeing Meg @booksoffthebeatenpath Ruben @ToReadersItMayConcern Pat @BookChatWithPat8668 David @davidnovakreadspoetry Gretchen @madeubook Reney @BeyondBooks-wt5il Hannah @HannahsBooks C.Gregory @CGRatedBooks
#authortube #booktubeBring Browsing Back!Phillip Hall2024-08-14 | The Bring Browsing Back Book Tag: I was tagged by the generous & welcoming Gavin, at (@GenreBooks23) And the tag was created by Karen at (@RovingReader)
1/ The Magic of Discovery *J.R.R. Tolkien, 'The Hobbit' & 'The Lord of the Rings' *Humphrey Carpenter, 'The Inklings' & 'J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography' *T.A. Shippey, 'The Road To Middle Earth'
2/ Expanding Worlds *Eugene Kamenka, 'The Portable Karl Marx', (Penguin) *Gareth Jones, 'Karl Marx: Greatness & Illusion', (Penguin) *Jonathon Sperber, 'Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life', (Liveright Publishing) *Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, 'The Communist Manifesto', (Penguin) *Andrew Collier, 'Marx', (A One World Book) *Gregory Claeys, 'Marx & Marxism', (A Pelican Book) *Stuart Jeffries, 'Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School', (Verso) * Rachel Holmes, 'Eleanor Marx: A Life', (Bloomsbury) *Mary Gabriel, 'Love & Capital: Karl & Jenny Marx & The Birth of a Revolution', (Back Bay Books) *Suzanne Fagence Cooper, 'How We Might Live: At Home With Jane & William Morris', (Quercus)
3/ Open to Change *Ursula K. Le Guin, 'The Books of EarthSea, (Gollancz)
4/ Browse a Library, Bookshop or Friend's Bookshelves *Martin Buber, 'I And Thou', (Bloomsbury) *Martin Buber, 'Between Man & Man', (Routledge) *Paul Mendes-Flohr, 'Martin Buber: A Life of Faith & Dissent', (Yale University Press) *Maurice Friedman, 'My Friendship With Martin Buber', (Syracuse University Press) *Owen Sheers, 'Skirrid Hill', (Seren) *Sylvia Plath, 'Collected Poems', (Faber) *Louis MacNeice: 'Collected Poems', (Wake Forest University Press) *George Mackay Brown, 'The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown', (John Murray) *Lynette Roberts, 'Collected Poems', (Carcanet)
In this video I refer to some BookTube channels that I have found especially welcoming & encouraging:
Emily Clarice Pessoa, @TheLinguistsLibrary Ruben, @ToReadersItMayConcern Pat, @BookChatWithPat8668 Gavin, @GenreBooks
#authortube #booktubefive poets to luxuriate in (slowly)Phillip Hall2024-08-12 | Welcome to what are (currently) my favourite five poets: Jo Shapcott, Angela Leighton, Ros Barber, Dannie Abse, & Katherine Towers. The bliss, the wonder, & ecstasy of reading slowly.
Books to be discussed:
Jo Shapcott, 'Her Book: Poems 1988-1998', (Faber, 2000) Jo Shapcott, 'Of Mutability', (Faber, 2010) Angela Leighton, 'Something, I Forget', (Carcanet Poetry, 2023) Ros Barber, 'How Things Are On Thursday', (Anvil Press Poetry, 2004) Ros Barber, 'Material', (Anvil Press Poetry, 2008) Dannie Abse, 'New & Selected: Anniversary Collection', (Hutchinson, 2009) Katherine Towers, 'The Floating Man', (Picador Poetry, 2010)
Honourable mention:
Phillip Hall, 'Bacchus in Ruins', (Published in 'Cactus', Recent Work Press, 2021)
Other books mentioned:
Jo Shapcott, 'Tender Taxes', (Faber, 2001) Angela Leighton, 'On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, & the Legacy of a Word', (Oxford, 2007) Angela Leighton, 'Spills', (Carcanet Poetry, 2016) Angela Leighton, 'One, Two', (Carcanet Poetry, 2023) Dannie Abse, 'The Presence', (Vintage Books, 2008)
#authortube #booktube #poetryFirst Australian RoyaltyPhillip Hall2024-08-06 | Today I share with you a selection of seven poems from my book, 'Fume'. This is a collection that interrogates the legacies of colonialism, but also celebrates the resiliency & splendour of First Australians from the Gulf of Carpentaria, in Australia's far tropical north.
The poems to be shared from my collection, 'Fume' (University of Western Australia Publishing):
*'Walk up Tank Hill': (for my lil-dad, Dwight Raggett, Gudanji man) *'Brolga Clan': (for the Garrwa, Gudanji, Mara & Yanyuwa) *'Inheritance': (for the Gudanji mob of Bauhinia Downs, Cow Lagoon & Devil's Spring) *'Dawn Song': (for gangu, William Miller) *'Waterlily Light Well': (for Jayipa, or Catfish Hole) *'Turtle Camp': (for my Yanyuwa friends, & Two-Way Learning) *'Royalty': (for Jayipa, or Catfish Hole)
#authortube #booktube #poetryLet Magic Come: The King of Elflands DaughterPhillip Hall2024-07-30 | We have gained so much from rationalism & materialism, but are they enough (on their own) to explain the universe & our place in it? What complimentary sources of knowledge are also indispensable: the arts, theology, imagination, magic? We need more multidisciplinary collaboration, care & respect.
Books to be discussed:
Lord Dunsany, 'The King of Elfland's Daughter', (The Folio Society) Mary Midgley, 'Science & Poetry', (Routledge) Peter Porter & Arthur Boyd, 'The Lady & the Unicorn', (Bundanon Trust) Peter Porter, 'The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems', (Allen & Unwin)
(#authortube; #booktube; #poetry)That Dirty Little Nature PoetryPhillip Hall2024-07-17 | In this video we return to the poetics of place, in particular to what is often referred to as 'Nature Poetry', a surprising & transcendent poetry of wholeness, vulnerability & love.
Poems to be discussed:
*Phillip Hall, 'Bridal Falls' in 'Sweetened in Coals', (Ginninderra Press) *Bruce Dawe, 'Homo Suburbiensis' in 'Sometimes Gladness', (Longman Cheshire) *Sarah Day, 'Hens' in 'New & Selected Poems', (Arc Publications) *Moya Pacey, 'Nesting' & 'Quarrel' in 'Black Tulips', (Recent Work Press) *Phillip Hall, 'Borroloola Blue' in 'Fume', (UWAP)
Featured Bookcover:
Moya Pacey, 'Doggerland', (Recent Work Press)
(#authortube; #booktube; #poetry)Counting Down the Days: Books Im Excited About!Phillip Hall2024-07-11 | I am really excited to be taking part in this BookTube tag which is the brainchild of @ToReadersItMayConcern & @ProseAndPetticoats. I was tagged by @BookChatWithPat8668 & I am overwhelmed by everyone's welcome & encouragement. This bookTube is a wonderful lark!
Books to be discussed:
*Lord Dunsany, 'The King of Elfland's Daughter', (Folio Society) *Arundhati Roy, 'The God of Small Things' (Random House) *Arundhati Roy, 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' (Vintage Books) *Arundhati Roy, 'My Seditious Heart', (Hamish Hamilton) *Howard Carter, 'The Tomb of Tutunkhamun', (Folio Society) *Jonathan Stroud, 'Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase' (Disney, Hyperion) *Jonathan Stroud, 'Lockwood & Co: The Whispering Skull', (Disney, Hyperion) *Jonathan Stroud, 'Lockwood & Co: The Hollow Boy', (Disney, Hyperion) *Jonathan Stroud, 'Lockwood & Co: The Creeping Shadow', (Disney, Hyperion) *Jonathan Stroud, 'Lockwood & Co: The Empty Grave', (Disney, Hyperion) *Katherine Rundell, 'Super-Infinite: the Transformations of John Donne (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) *Susanna Clarke, 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, (Folio Society) *Mary Gabriel, 'Ninth Street Women, (Back Bay Books) *Gail Levin, 'Lee Krasner: A Biography', (William Morrow) *Ruth Appelhof, 'Lee & Me: an Intimate Portrait of Lee Krasner', (Officina Libraria) *Eleanor Nairn (ed.) 'Lee Krasner: Living Colour', (Thames & Hudson) *Emily Wilson (translater), 'The Iliad by Homer', (WW Norton) *Emily Wilson (translater), 'The Odyssey by Homer', (WW Norton) *John Bew, 'Clement Attlee: the Man Who Made Modern Britain', (Oxford University Press)
(#booktube; #authortube; #CountingTheDays)Let there be dragons (& poetry)!Phillip Hall2024-07-08 | Welcome to 'a poet reads to write'. I am an Australian poet, critic & essayist who lives in a tiny home in the Southern Highlands of NSW with the light of his life, an ex-racer, rescue greyhound named Billy-Blue. We love to share & be inspired.
Books discussed:
Phillip Hall, 'Sweetened in Coals', (Ginninderra Press, 2014) Phillip Hall, 'Borroloola Class', (International Poetry Studies Institute, 2017) Phillip Hall, 'Fume', (University of Western Australia Publishing, 2018) Phillip Hall, 'Cactus', (Recent Work Press, 2021)
#booktube #authortube #poetryKnow Your Place!Phillip Hall2024-07-04 | Join Dr. Phil in a journey through some contemporary Australian poetry of place. How do we best write place? Why is a poetics of place important? What values & priorities should be foregrounded? In writing place how should the poet make use of the ecological sciences? And how should the imperatives of ecopoetics & postcolonialism inform everything that the poet does? Sign on, & know your place! (#poetry; #booktube; #authortube)
Books to be discussed:
Judith Beveridge, 'Sun Music: New & Selected (Giramondo Poets) Vivian Smith, 'Along the Line', (Salt Publishing, Cambridge) R.F. Brissenden, 'Suddenly Evening: The Selected Poems', (McPhee Gribble) Robert Adamson, 'Reading the River: Selected Poems', (Bloodaxe Books) Robert Adamson, 'The Goldfinches of Bagdad', (Flood Editions) Phillip Hall, 'Sweetened in Coals', (Ginninderra Press)Write Like A.R. AmmonsPhillip Hall2024-06-27 | Join Dr. Phil in a journey through the poetry of A.R.Ammons, learning what Ammons can teach us about form and feeling, and how a poem can inhabit space and shine on the page - an ambush of radiant joy. (#authortube; #booktube; #poetry).
Books to be discussed:
A.R. Ammons, 'Collected Poems', (W.W. Norton & Company) Zofia Burr (ed.), 'A.R.Ammons: Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews & Dialogues', (The University of Michigan Press) David Burke & Roger Gilbert (ed.s), 'Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A.R. Ammons', (W.W. Norton & Company) Phillip Hall, 'Sweetened in Coals', (Ginninderra Press)Write Like Sylvia PlathPhillip Hall2024-06-22 | Phillip is an Australian poet, critic & essayist. Come with him on a journey as we travel through Sylvia Plath's 'Wuthering Heights' to become inspired for our own writing: technical tips with writing poetry, how to choose a really great title, creative writing master class. (#authortube; #booktube; #poetry)
Poems to be discussed:
'Wuthering Heights', 'Hardcastle Crags', & 'The Great Carbuncle', in Sylvia Plath, 'Collected Poems', (Faber & Faber)