MAX WILLIAMS

Log of interview 23^rd 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

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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

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46:42

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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

52:00

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

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60:05

60:20

Thanks