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Ali Cobby Eckermann (born 1963) is an Australian poet of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. She is a Yankunytjatjara woman born on Kaurna land in South Australia . Eckermann has written poetry collections, verse novels and a memoir, and has been shortlisted for or won several literary awards.
Asked about the poem "Virtues of a Boring Husband", a poem where a husband speaks to his wife as to help her fall asleep, Lee said: "My sense is that poem meditates on paired-ness, the dyad, two-ness. When the speaker is talking about God, he’s also talking about the two-ness of the mind and God. And there’s the lover and the beloved.
The poem is written in the voice of an old woman in a nursing home who is reflecting upon her life. Crabbit is Scots for "bad-tempered" or "grumpy". The poem appeared in the Nursing Mirror in December 1972 without attribution. Phyllis McCormack explained in a letter to the journal that she wrote the poem in 1966 for her hospital newsletter. [4]
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Ali's poetry also addresses the Kashmiri Pandit community; one of the poems in the collection is dedicated to Suvir Kaul. [8] [5] There is a poem titled "Hans Christian Ostro", about a Norwegian tourist who was captured by Al-Faran militants in Kashmir in 1995. Daniel Hall called this poem "the most poignant of Shahid's political poems". [9]
The texts of all four songs are poems written by Vaughan Williams' wife Ursula who penned several books of poetry throughout her lifetime as well as a biography of her late husband. "Procris" and "Menelaus" deal with figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology and epic poetry while "Tired" and "Hands, Eyes, and Heart" depict images of love ...
Sonnet 46 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, composed of three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet, written in a type of metre called iambic pentameter based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Running Free (2007) ... 6/10 [2] Big Love is the debut solo album by English singer and songwriter Ali ...