NANCE COOKSON

Log of interview 21st of May 2007 in Bega

TRACK ONE

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

0:25

Intro and thanks

0:28

0:57

 

0:55

 

 

 

Stephen Matthews at Ginninderra Press

1:24

 

 

 

Q: What is a poem to you?

1:46

1:55

(answer to the question)

2:09

2:31

Wit in poetry

2:31

3:06

Many favourite poets, fear of accidental plagiarism

3:10

3:33

Q: Are there new ideas in poetry?

3:34

4:30

Q: Why are you so prolific? Tim calls Nance the Emily Dickinson of the far South Coast (vide infra)

4:32

5:35

Becoming a poet and her childhood

5:47

6:02

 

6:05

6:28

Why she was driven to write so much

6:42

7:18

Her two brothers in the family home

7:20

7:43

Q You do short stories, any narrative poems? A: No

 

 

 

 

 

 

(preparing to read from Laughing in the Street 2007)

8:06

9:26

 

9:49

10:17

 

10:27

11:09

 

11:24

11:46

 

12:00

12:30

vide infra)

12:31

12:47

 

12:52

 

 

 

Q: Humour in her work, its fundamental importance

13:20

14:05

Depression in our culture.

14:12

15:37

 

TRACK TWO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0:09

0:19

Nance the narrative artist

0:20

0:55

 

0:56

1:07

A prize she shared some years ago for the title poem

1:08

1:32

 

1:32

1:52

Adaptations of real life characters a source of her poems

2:05

 

 

 

 

2:29

3:25

 

3:35

 

 

 

 

4:14

5:42

 

5:43

6:39

 

7:08

13:16

Nance reads She sees Spanish Ships, title short story

13:17

13:32

Follow-up remarks by Tim

13:34

 

 

 

Q: You never give up?

13:48

14:27

Favourite poets, CJ Dennis

14:28

15:20

More favourite poets

15:21

16:05

 

16:49

17:22

FAW helpful to developing poetry. Gwen Hutchins, haiku

17:57

18:20

 

18:58

20:25

 

20:35

21:10

Graham and Nance discuss the book and the poem

21:11

21:35

 

21:38

22:10

Stage setting in her work, the theatre as a child, Chekhov

 

 

 

23:03

recalls name of her launcher: Christobel Mattingley

23:30

 

 

 

 

24:00

24:04

 

 

 

 

25:00

More loved poems from a list Nance brought with her.

25:00

25:48

A list of good poets locally; launch of Gwen Hutchins book

 

 

 

 

 

 

(more favourites)

27:06

27:50

Q: what makes your poetry worthwhile?

27:56

28:22

When her sons did HSC English she liked the exam questions so much she enrolled to do it herself, and passed.

28:59

29:04

Thanks

updated: 22/03/2010