Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner

Author:Helen Garner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2016-03-28T04:00:00+00:00

‘Get crossways of me, LaBoeuf, and you will think a thousand of brick has fell on you.’

Charles Portis, True Grit

At an Australian literature conference in Armidale a dozen of us were taken by bus to visit the birthplace of the poet Judith Wright. In a homestead of deep, flowery verandas we were welcomed by female relatives with the long legs and quiet authority of horsewomen, not to mention the ability to knock up an airy sponge cake. While we were standing in the bedroom in which the poet had first seen the light of day, one of the academics murmured, ‘I once went into the room where Thomas Hardy was born. They didn’t think he’d survive. They threw him into a corner.’

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