![]() Roughly 30 percent of all people everywhere are sensitive in some way to their touch. Goethe thought it “a pity that just the excellent personalities suffer most.” But the winds are nothing is not democratic. But there is general agreement amongst Byron, Columbus, Dante, Darwin, Humboldt, Luther, Michelangelo, Milton, Mozart, Napoleon, Nietzsche, Rousseau, Schiller and Wagner that wind does make a difference, turning both body and mind. While the north wind was described by Spenser as “bitter, black and blustering,” by Shakespeare as “wrathful and tyrannous,” and held responsible for “gout, the falling evil, itch and the ague.” Hippocrates was convinced that west winds were worse, and that people exposed to them became pale and sickly with digestive organs that were “frequently deranged from the phlegm that runs down into them from the head.” Theophrastus noted that it was in southerly winds that “men find themselves more weary and incapable” due to thinning of the lubricant in their joints. ![]() It was literally in an east wind that Charles I was beheaded and James II deposed. ![]() Everyone wears a grim expression and is inclined to make desperate decisions. Men who are strong enough to preserve their health in this accursed wind at least lose their good humor. Even the animals suffer from it and have a dejected air. There is still time to get your tickets and catch a session – the festival runs until Sunday night, 31 August 2014 – check out the festival program for all the details.This east wind, is responsible for numerous cases of suicide.Black melancholy spreads over the whole nation. Much fun was had by all and once again I left inspired. This is the third year I’ve attended the Queensland Poetry Festival. The Bell Divers rounded out the first session, rocking the house with their foot tapping beats juxtaposed with their, at times, melancholy lyrics.Īfter a brief intermission, Cyril Wong charmed us with his candid conversation and self-deprecating humour and we ended the night enthralled by the haunting sounds of McKisko with ‘Berlin influences’ (table topic – the merits or otherwise of melodihorns). If you have not seen Warsan perform live you are missing something truly special. Sarah Holland-Batt opened the show with her classy, hard-hitting prose and then we were blown away by Poet in Residence Warsan Shire’s moving performance. The ever sunny Pascalle Burton (MC for the evening) greeted us with positivity and puffy sleeves (the latter sparking much debate at my table – everyone’s a fashion critic after champaz). Then we all eagerly took our seats in the Judith Wright Centre’s Theatre Space for the opening night gala, Needlepoints of Light. ![]() ![]() I was there – it was moving.īoth ladies performed their award-winning pieces – raw, confronting, visceral, deep, intelligent and ultimately powerful. Next the 2014 Thomas Shapcott Award went to Krissy Kneen for her manuscript ‘Eating My Grandmother’. You can actually read the acceptance speech Krissy intended to read on her blog – she didn’t read it, but most was said. The night began with the announcement of the winner of the 2014 Val Vallis Award, Chloe Wilson’s poem ‘Not Axe Nor Fox’. You can read the full transcript of ‘Not Axe Nor Fox’ at Cordite Poetry Review. Last night festival season for bookish and arty types kicked off here in Brisbane with the opening of the Queensland Poetry Festival. ![]()
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