MAX WILLIAMS

Log of interview 23rd of April 2007 in Bega

To listen to the whole interview contact me. For copyright and aesthetic reasons the raw recordings are not available on-line.

0:20

 

 

 

Date wrong (I say March 23rd)

0:34

1:24

I read bio from The Unforgiving Poem

1:30

2:13

 

2:13

3:58

Rodney Hall tells him he can write and helps him

3:58

4:30

Poetry books in prison

4:30

 

 

 

Hall advises him to forget learning technique and just write

4:58

5:28

The opera house, Judith Wright introduces him to the crowd

5:40

6:24

Ballet dancers choreograph and perform Dingo, the poem

6:34

 

 

 

Schools and CAE work for Poetry Society of Australia

6:56

 

 

 

 

7:47

9:10

North Shore school, asks the teacher to leave the class

10:04

 

 

 

Q: The strengths of your poetry?

10:22

 

 

 

 

10:42

 

 

 

I just act natural

11:33

 

 

 

There is no professional inside him.

11:35

11:53

 

12:11

12:49

 

13:13

14:00

Not meaning to put professionals down

14:05

 

 

 

Dorothy Hewett, good poet, good friend, social historian, admires her subject matter

15:00

 

 

 

Crudeness in poetry

15:20

16:02

Bad language is in bad taste

16:05

 

 

 

Cover of The Unforgiving Poem

16:15

 

 

 

Baronda and his association with Wes Stacey

17:45

18:24

Gap, looking for poems to read, all are untitled

18:55

 

 

 

 

19:55

20:10

The tinker in Tanja

20:30

 

 

 

 

21:30

22:10

 

22:10

 

 

 

A woman he did not do well with (? Name)

22:50

23:38

 

23:50

 

 

 

 

24:04

24:59

Max reads The Unforgiving Poem

25:42

 

 

 

 

26:24

27:15

 

27:32

 

 

 

 

28:42

 

 

 

Stepmother poem

29:00

29:20

Marriage no influence on writing

29:25

30:28

His favourite poets Homer and Neruda

30:28

31:14

 

31:14

33:10

 

33:12

34:00

Max was a red ragger for a while

34:50

35:50

Max reads 

36:25

 

 

 

His boss Slave in 1966; Wollongong Coke Ovens

38:27

 

 

 

Grahams talks about Slave, the word

39:13

40:43

 

41:26

 

 

 

Fred Hollows

42:00

 

 

 

The shiela and kid he picked up on the way

43:03

43:30

 

43:35

 

 

 

Fred supported his work, the house they shared

44:47

 

 

 

 

46:14

46:42

 

46:44

48:30

Q: how do you see your life looking back...wasted youth, yes, he was a poet

48:30

49:15

A school essay he was the hero of

49:15

50:03

Wished his family had lived to see his success after 50

50:08

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52:04

53:17

 

54:00

56:41

 

56:42

57:35

 

57:43

58:40

Learning to separate good and bad people as he got older

59:40

60:02

 

60:05

60:20

Thanks

updated: 22/03/2010