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australian poetry library

thanks to stephen webb for this: a new website on Australian poetry.

The Australian Poetry Library - with thousands of free poems, including

James McAuley

AD Hope

Henry Lawson

David Malouf

Les Murray

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

David Rowbotham

Kenneth Slessor

Judith Wright

woooo. enjoy.

(now where is Kevin Hart?)

Trove

Trove is the new web portal for the Australian National Library. If you're looking for a book, you can find out which library in your city holds it. You can also search on other types of print media, films, photos, maps, etc.

For example, a search on 

A history of installation and the development of new art forms : technology and the hermeneutics of time and space in modern and postmodern art from cubism to installation / Faye Ran

tells me that there's a copy at the Barr-Smith Library at the University of Adelaide - even gives me the call no. nice.

we have no words for your grief

we can't speak into your grief
and don't presume to relieve it
all we can offer are prayers
in the name of one who was lost
and now is also lost for words

may God be with you
where you are right now
and wherever you may find yourself

may God be with you
in the warm tears
and in cold comfort

may God be with you
in this dimming twilight
and into the long night

may God be with you
in the strong embrace
and through the long loneliness

may God be with you
in whispered comfort
and awkward silence

may God be with you
in this impossible loss
and the eternal why?
may God be with us

living and dying and
ending and beginning
there seems no end to it all
and all keeps beginning
despite it all
so at the end of all
we hold to that uncertain why
that inevitable ending
that brings us face to face

may God be with you

Demetri Martin creates a 224-word palindrome poem

224-word palindrome poem

in every atom

know the world is a mirror from head to foot,
in every atom are a hundred blazing suns.
if you cleave the heart of one drop of water,
a hundred pure oceans emerge from it.
if you examine closely each grain of sand,
a thousand atoms may be seen in it.
in its members a gnat is like an elephant.
in its qualities a drop of rain is like the Nile.
the heart of a barley corn equals a hundred harvests.
a world dwells in the heart of a millet seed.
in the wing of a gnat is the ocean of life.
in the pupil of the eye a heaven:
what though the grain of the heart be small
it is a station of the Lord of both worlds to dwell therein.

Mahmud Shabistari
13th century