Adore Randolph Stow's work...Read 'To the Islands' + 'Merry-Go-Round in the Sea' + 'Midnite' + finally 'To the Girl Green as Elderflower'. Poetry - 'Ishmael' + 'The Land's Meaning'. His work today seems to be a lost treasure...at least as far as school curriculum is concerned. https://t.co/I2a124BBEV— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 14, 2020
From 'Ishmael'
The hawks wheel in the
dawnlight, the dawn breeze
blows
from the heart of drought, from
the hungry waiting country –
and what have I to leave, but
this encumbering
tenderness, like gear for ever
unclaimed.
P.S. Currently popular Western Australian novelist Tim Winton influenced by Stow's outback descriptions of Western Australian outback landscapes and people? (In particular, this comment seems connected to Stow's novel 'Tourmaline'.)
P.P.S. It seems that the Sydney Morning Herald agrees with me...
article on Stow published June 2, 2010
Randolph Stow quotes:
Ishmael -'Oasis. Discovered homeland. My eyes drink at your eyes.'
The Embarkation-'Winds in the harbour hiss'
At Sandalwood-'The love of time, and the grief of time: the harmony'
The Land's Meaning-'The love of man is a weed of the waste places.'
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