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Preface

Matt Simpson
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Matt Simpson
Matt Simpson
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Liverpool, 1995
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Preface

The poems collected here were the product — before, during and after — of a two-month residency in Tasmania in the Autumn of 1995. The residency was hosted by the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, and coincided in its first week with the Tasmanian Poetry Festival. It was supported by Cornford Press and the British Council.

Most of the poems are responses to encounters with the work and life of the mid-nineteenth-century writer and artist, Louisa Anne Meredith, who spent the first part of her life in Birmingham and who was already established as author and artist before, at the age of twenty-seven, she married her cousin, Charles, and sailed for Australia in 1839.

The Headland booklet was dedicated to DimitrisTsaloumas and the Queen Victoria Museum publication to Kaye Dowling and TimThorne.

The present collection is dedicated to the many people who were kind and generous to me during the residency.

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Cutting the Clouds Towards , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Print publication year: 1999

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