ANNA BUCK

Log of interview 28^st of May 2007 in Bega

TRACK ONE

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0:25

Intro and thanks; BDN; FAW; Best Australian Poems

0:47

1:13

Q What drove you to poetry?

1:14

Some favourites

1:20

1:46

Her parents

1:47

1:57

One of seven children

1:58

At school it was the story that she loved in a poem

2:44

Family came to Australia

2:48

3:18

Move to Wyndham NSW

3:45

3:56

Meeting Anna Glover

4:14

5:06

Twenty years of Annagrams

5:25

Annagrams as sketches: their relationship to her poetry

6:00

6:25

Seeing the Rocky Hall road sealed.

6:35

Countless articles about people for the paper

6:53

The FAW, writing poems as little reminders to herself

7:40

8:02

Brian and the Alternative Lifestyle: 10 programs for ABC that were never broadcast

8:03

The poetry took over her writing

8:57

Success has come in poetry

8:58

9:14

Poetry has given her the most pleasure and rewards

9:24

10:25

Q: lightness of tone, restrained emotion in the language

11:14

12:35

Q: being apolitical, simply stating circumstances, not trying to influence people.

13:40

Laying yourself open on the page

13:50

Q: Confessional poetry, detachment in her writing

15:20

17:15

Stages of writing poetry we all go through; she has come around to finding that common ground

TRACK THREE

1:30

1:40

2:53

3:04

5:20

5:23

12:31

13:07

Tim and Anna discuss the poem, not very cohesively

14:28

She was 14 when the murders happened, the time of the Profumo affair and the cold war.

16:08

17:19

17:19

Q: Clarity of her writing

18:03

20:40

TRACK FOUR

0:04

8:36

9:14

10:35

10:40

12:10

12:20

12:43

12:53

14:07

16:42

16:42

17:19

Q: (Graham) how do you feel about languages

17:20

Her Yorkshire parents and their dialect

18:14

Q: Favourite  Australian poets?

19:40

22:40

The pleasure of old anthologies

23:00

 25:19

Q: (Graham) Her change from visual to textual art? Being a creative artist, life as happier with a creative outlet, needs to be released

25:19

26:14

Being creative is being who you are, not indulgence

26:23

27:45

28:25

The far south coast today?

28:30

30:28

Long Question from graham on compassionate environment, connection with people, consumerism

31:18

32:04

Idea of destiny as a writer

33:10

33:54

Feels no need to release a collection. Often read pieces differently to written version, changes as she reads

35:35

36:34

36:34

37:00

38:00

38:00

thanks

TRACK TWO

On other CD

0:20

8:17