Samuel Wagan Watson

the dusk sessions

Язык: английский

Переводы: немецкий (die dämmerungssessions)

the dusk sessions

the pyromaniacs of the gods were kicking it
into that desert sunset
upon a fire pink, burner-blue horizon line
blossoms cherry red
and naked solar flares drowning into hibiscus hell-flowers
dancing a wake for the dying light
above a necropolis of mulga and spinifex

fueling until darkness

when the tourists overdose on shooting stars
the lark of min-min lights
on the petals of midnight bloom
as the ghostriders take up watch

illuminated into the pitch
by the sun-bleached bones
of dry-spell roadkill

Samuel Wagan Watson

* 01.01.1972, Brisbane, Австралия
Место жительства: , Австралия

Samuel Wagan Watson was born in Brisbane in 1972, of Irish, German and Aboriginal (Bundjalung and Birri Gubba) ancestory. He has been a salesman, public relations officer, fraud investigator, graphic artist, labourer, law clerk, film industry technician and an actor. He is currently a project officer in the Strategic Policy and Research Unit of Arts Queensland.

Watson’s first collection, Of muse, meandering and midnight (1999) won the David Unaipon Award for Emerging Indigenous Writers. His subsequent collections are Itinerant Blues (2001) and Hotel Bone (2001). He is also co-author of the award-winning website blackfellas, whitefellas, wetlands, commissioned by the Brisbane City Council.

Watson describes his influences in writing as Nick Cave, Tom Waites, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski and the Australian poet Robert Adamson. The Aboriginal elements in his poetry take their place within contemporary, often urban, landscapes, marked by a dramatic or surrreal intensity, which suggests energies at play in them which are barely contained within their forms.

The imagery has a strong emblematic quality, and is marked by unexpected juxtapositions which combine the technological and the mythical, and virtual realities with those of the natural world. There is a strong social and political dimension to the poetry, implicit in many of the situations portrayed in the poems, in the treatment of personal memories, and in the identifications made with the poor, the itinerants, or the fugitive characters which feature in his work.

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