Track One 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TIM METCALF 1

Log of interview with Graham Farram Bega winter 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

0:07

0:46

good evening blah blah

0:57

1:40

Corvus, reads back cover blurb

1:45

2:52

 

 2:53

3:52

 

3:53

3:58

the poetmaker

3:38

6:00

Corvus, Graham reads acknowledgements

6:01

6:18

Jane

6:18

6:49

acknowledging tutors in poetry

6:55

7:20

publishing since 1988, age 27

7:21

7:59

asked what made him turn to poetry as a  young doctor but wanders off the point and does not reply

8:00

10:10

graduating 1984 and going to the bush; his parents

10:11

11:53

how why he chose poetry as a young medical graduate

11:54

 

Army reserve for paying the  rent

12:15

12:34

 

12:35

13:47

started writing about this time

13:48

14:56

 

 

 

 

16:42

confused ramblings about soldier, doctor, poet

16:43

18:02

Corvus, Stages of Dying, the medical reality behind the poem

18:03

18:32

question on service delivery in aboriginal health

18:42

19:14

closing remarks, joking about

19:56

20:46

 

19:39

 

 

 

 

20:54

21:10

being silly

21:11

21:40

 

21:41

 

 

 

fooling around

Track two

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TIM METCALF

Log of readings with Graham Farram Bega 18th June 2007

 

 

 

 

 

0:00

4:40

 

4:40

 

Cut to the Word (CTW)

5:06

8:10

 

 

 

 

 

Talk about CTW

8:56

9:40

Susan Hampton  and CTW

9:41

10:47

Graham: ACT citation for Into the No Zone (INZ)

10:48

11:50

Tim talks about the award

 

12:48

 

 

13:05

Other things he has done

13:05

 

What a poet is, more than writing poems; ANU involvement

14:09

 

Poetry and medicine; poetry and health

14:48

 

Various invitations from universities/public art projects

15:35

 

Verbal Medicine

15:55

 

NRHA address, Partyline articles

17:35

 

Poetry as a reflective tool in the medical humanities

18:50

 

(Graham starts to wind up, mentions literary tour)

19:40

20:57

 

21:00

 

 Freud, the OED, medical thought and teaching

22:15

22:54

 

23:39

26:08

Professor Atwood at Melbourne University

26:07

28:00

 

28:24

29:20

Chinese and aboriginal verse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRACK THREE

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRAHAM AND TIM 18th June 2007

0:22

 

 

 

Q: Things Tim has done , poetry and medicine, blather

3:20

 

 

 

Q: Verbal Medicine other peoples use of poetry(drifts off)

4:28

5:36

Nationalism of Verbal Medicine (VM)

 

 

 

5:50

Graham talks about VM poets

5:50

7:24

 

7:24

8:26

Morning in the Bush (Tim reads)

8:26

11:18

The Byron Bay launch, Prof Judy Atkinson; health care workers trauma in indigenous communities

11:18

12:27

Q: Is telling stories important? Craig Powell

12:28

 

 

 

Graham talks about INZ

12:53

14:28

 

14:30

16:12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17:38

18:20

 

18:21

20:50

 

20:58

21:49

Q: Honesty and its requirements?

21:50

22:40

Q: How is interviewing people for you, Tim? Wanders off question

22:40

 

 

 

The Ghandi rating Tim is now using

22:38

 

 

 

Anna Buck and SEAR

23:50

 

 

 

The Solution to Us

24:50

25:30

 

updated: 22/03/2010