Klyth Tan The Latest Poetry Website at Your Local Bookshop |
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| Klyth Tan ©Copyright 2002 - Klyth is an ECU Honours Student and writes at "Poet-tree & QWT" Check out his latest publication in ECU's Golden Key Chapter newsletter called "For Les Murray" http://www.ecu.edu.au/pa/gknhs/documents/newsletters/May_2002/lesmurray.htm |
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| The Latest Poetry Website At Your Local Bookshop You ask for directions to the "Poetry Section" and as the smiling bookshop attendant leads you past rows and rows of shelves all stacked with copies of The Lost World then through the self-help gurus think positive eat healthy gurus new age gurus new sage gurus massage gurus boardroom gurus bedroom gurus gossip gurus how to make your first million by fifteen gurus: You’re increaslingly sure here is a well-versed guide guru who knows. Like a fast and efficient search engine this one is truly reliable: Yahoo, Yahoo, Yahoo! But hey...I didn’t ask for "Pottery Section!" Oops, sir, you mean "Poultry Section"... No problems, sir, "Poultry Section" is next turn... Thanking the bookshop attendant enough there and then you search for the lost world of Poetry on your own... A moment at the "Poultry Section" (just purely out of curiosity) you catch a glimpse of one Seamus Heaney between The Latest Techniques of Chicken Breeding and The Pros and Cons of Ostrich Rearing. Thinking it must be some other rich & famous Heaney you give him a miss and continue your grand journey towards the Shangri-lalala indeed! When you finally reach it you’re so glad you did! The same Yahoo feeling as stumbling online onto any fabulous www by chance your Shangri-lalala indeed! Even some ways better if you ask me for the cobwebsite is nature’s perfect symmetry a long neglected spot of beauty until your heroic self-discovery: Found! At your local bookshop The Lost World of Poetry in another dimension from the latest Jurassic technology. |
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