Veronika Wild

"As We Travel" - by Luke Wagner inspired by the poetry of  James McAuley Not too far away at the Colville Gallery at the far end of Salamanca, Tasmanian artist Luke Wagner  has fulfilled a long held ambition to paint a series based on the poems of James McAuley (1917 -1976) a well-known Australian academic, poet, journalist and literary critic perhaps most famous for the “ Ern Malley Hoax ” in which he and a collaborator, despising modernist poetry, successfully submitted sixteen nonsense poems to a literary magazine.  

Thank you, Fiona and The Irish Way. Oh dear, this hasn't loaded quite the way it should have. The first three words are "Two roads converged...." The original poem is by Robert Frost  and was written in about 1915 after a stay in the UK. It is about indecision which certainly strikes a chord with me. Read the full poem here . It remains one of the best known and misread poems in America. Just thought you might want to know all that. I chipped a front tooth on New Year's Day, which is not exactly a good omen for 2017. While I have been hiding away waiting for the Tooth Fairy to have a cancellation, I have been browsing through all the funnies and inspiring stories on this site. However, I am not the only one who didn't get off to a good start. Five -year -old granddaughter slipped on Hobart's fabulous long slide - always a favourite with several generations of this family, and managed to break four bones in her little foot. She is now the proud posses...