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Episode #191

‘Flies in the Nirvana’: An illuminating and sisterly correspondence

By Peter Rose

In this week’s ABR Podcast, Peter Rose reviews Hazzard and Harrower: The letters, edited by Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham. The correspondence between writers Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower ran from 1966 to 2008 and, in its unedited form, amounted to 400,000 words. Editors Susan Wyndham Brigitta Olubas have trimmed it down: ‘For the time being,’ says Peter Rose, ‘we must make do with this entertaining and not insubstantial entrée.’ Listen to Peter Rose’s ‘Flies in the Nirvana’: An illuminating and sisterly correspondence’, published in the June issue of ABR.

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Kerry Reed-Gilbert reads her poems ‘Wiradjuri Country’, ‘Got ya’, and ‘Just leave your mark here’ for ABR's ACT States of Poetry anthology.

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Series Two">States of Poetry Podcast - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p><span class="dropcap">M</span>elinda Smith reads her poems ‘Some trees’ and ‘The undiscovered country’for <em>ABR</em>'s <a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-act">ACT States of Poetry anthology</a>.</p> <p><iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/319535928&color=ff5500&auto_play= ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/podcast/203-states-of-poetry-podcast-2017/4036-states-of-poetry-act-state-editor-jen-webb-introduces-the-act-anthology">State Editor Jen Webb introduces series two of the ACT anthology</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/podcast/author/916-hiddenauthor">Hidden Author</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/podcast/content/203-states-of-poetry-podcast-2017" title="States of Poetry Podcast - Series Two">States of Poetry Podcast - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p><span class="dropcap">I</span>n this episode of <em>Australian Book Review</em>'s States of Poetry podcast, <a href="/podcast/192-states-of-poetry-2017-act/3869-states-of-poetry-2017-act-state-editor-s-introduction-by-jen-webb">State Editor Jen Webb introduces the 2017 ACT anthology</a>.</p> <p><iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/31953283 ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/podcast/176-states-of-poetry-podcast/3428-states-of-poetry-act-podcast-lady-mungo-speaks-and-whitefellas-by-jeanine-leane">States of Poetry 2016 ACT Podcast | 'Lady Mungo Speaks' and 'Whitefellas' by Jeanine Leane</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/podcast/author/916-hiddenauthor">Hidden Author</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/podcast/content/176-states-of-poetry-podcast" title="States of Poetry Podcast - Series One">States of Poetry Podcast - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <div class="customHighlightText"><p><span class="dropcap">I</span>n this episode of <em>Australian Book Review</em>'s States of Poetry podcast, Jeanine Leane reads her poems 'Lady Mungo Speaks' and 'Whitefellas' which feature in the 2016 ACT anthology.</p> ... <a href="/podcast/176-states-of-poetry-podcast/3428-states-of-poetry-act-podcast-lady-mungo-speaks-and-whitefellas-by-jeanine-leane">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-act/171-states-of-poetry-act/2952-states-of-poetry-act-spring-fall-by-adrian-caesar">'Spring Fall' by Adrian Caesar | States of Poetry ACT - Series One</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/podcast/author/5542-adriancaesar">Adrian Caesar</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-act" title="States of Poetry ACT - Series One">States of Poetry ACT - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>I see you stand with your back to me<br />at the French window as you did last March<br />looking at early flowers<br />yellow and crimson, pansy and primrose<br />peeping from their crust of snow and<br />above them the steel-sculpted angel<br />rearing from a wooden plinth: guardian<br />of the courtyard. In those bleak days I knew<br />you were reading the cemetery metaphor<br />of your blig ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-act/171-states-of-poetry-act/2953-states-of-poetry-act-crafting-consolation-by-adrian-caesar">'Crafting Consolation' by Adrian Caesar | States of Poetry ACT - Series One</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/podcast/author/5542-adriancaesar">Adrian Caesar</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-act" title="States of Poetry ACT - Series One">States of Poetry ACT - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>Your kind friend sent a condolence card<br />and in the envelope a small white feather<br />which, she said, seemed to come from nowhere.<br /><em>Angel's wings obviously</em>, I wrote in my reply.<br />And for days after everywhere I went<br />I found small replicas, as if some tiny<br />feathered thing had scattered its moulting<br />on urban pavements, in shops and unlikely<br />bathrooms, a ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-act/171-states-of-poetry-act/2955-states-of-poetry-act-a-salutation-by-adrian-caesar">'A Salutation' by Adrian Caesar | States of Poetry ACT - Series One</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/podcast/author/5542-adriancaesar">Adrian Caesar</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-act" title="States of Poetry ACT - Series One">States of Poetry ACT - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>Some months after the funeral,<br />checking emails from the other hemisphere,<br />there's one from Pauline; subject: <em>Hell</em>.<br />It's not promising. My mind traverses<br />the last five years, their litany of loss –<br />a son, two friends and mentors,<br />then you, lovely sister, and like some grim<br />comedic postscript even Frankie<br />the cat succumbed. Suffice to say<br />I ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-act/171-states-of-poetry-act/2956-states-of-poetry-act-charlotte-s-grace-by-adrian-caesar">'Charlotte's Grace' by Adrian Caesar | States of Poetry ACT - Series One</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/podcast/author/5542-adriancaesar">Adrian Caesar</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-act" title="States of Poetry ACT - Series One">States of Poetry ACT - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p><em>(For my grand-daughter)</em></p> <p>Coming in with stones from the garden<br />your first impulse is to make them shine.<br /><em>Washing rocks</em>, you call it, and give them<br />full treatment, soap and flannel and rinse,<br />your three year old hands and eyes intent,<br />absorbed, and this not a one-off game;<br />it becomes a favourite as if<br />to establish your own ritual<br />y ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-act/171-states-of-poetry-act/2958-states-of-poetry-act-did-have-by-jen-crawford">'did, have' by Jen Crawford | States of Poetry ACT - Series One</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/podcast/author/5544-jencrawford">Jen Crawford</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry/states-of-poetry-act" title="States of Poetry ACT - Series One">States of Poetry ACT - Series One</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>my mum, being this, terribly emotional, also some part, egalitarian,<br />'I give 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