Sunday, May 18, 2008
Les Murray
The Meaning of Existence
Everything except language
knows the meaning of existence.
Trees, planets, rivers, time
know nothing else. They express it
moment by moment as the universe.
Even this fool of a body
lives it in part, and would
have full dignity within it
but for the ignorant freedom
of my talking mind.
Poems the Size of Photographs, 2002, (published by Carcanet, www.carcanet.co.uk)
Les will be reading at
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH UK
Friday 30th May 2008
Free by ticket only
starts 6 p.m.
Everything except language
knows the meaning of existence.
Trees, planets, rivers, time
know nothing else. They express it
moment by moment as the universe.
Even this fool of a body
lives it in part, and would
have full dignity within it
but for the ignorant freedom
of my talking mind.
Poems the Size of Photographs, 2002, (published by Carcanet, www.carcanet.co.uk)
Les will be reading at
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH UK
Friday 30th May 2008
Free by ticket only
starts 6 p.m.
# posted by June Clitheroll : 5:05 PM
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Poetry Scotland published translations of The Meaning if Existence into Gaelic (by Rody Gorman) and French (by Alain Suied). PS51,Summer 2007. These poems could well be available on internet with all the poets' permissions.
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