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     peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 334 Registered: 06-2005 |
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes /archibald/2017/29857/ From The Australian Artist - What I love The Go-Betweens But Australia is bright The Go-Betweens didn’t wear sunglasses to be cool They wore them to see And what did they see? The Go-Betweens saw everything Looking at Robert Forster I see Six-foot-three of absorbency Electric literary guitar Red-hot Brisbane bricks And French ultramarine stovepipes Shaping rhythmic legs Blue shoes aboard Yellow paving the way The poet walks Towards Oz art rock sunshine The genre he invented and perfected Simultaneously |