Friday essay: grief and things of stone, wood and wool
- Written by Tony Birch, Lecturer, Creative Writing, Victoria University
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Following the death of her elderly father, a close friend of mine recently asked if I would read a poem by Goethe at his funeral.
I didn’t know the man well. In fact, I had met him only once, seated in my friend’s car on a Fitzroy street on a sunny day several years ago. What struck me about him at the time...
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