David Malouf and Emily Bitto
Both of the authors during the readings used powerful descriptive language, portraying their worlds with such clarity that it was like listening to a movie with all the images being described with a language both powerful and accurate in its use.
Quote of the session went to David Malouf " The most interesting is the most ordinary".
Les Murray
Quote of the session by Les Murray "I love gravy, boy I love gravy". This immediately brought one of our discussions for award to mind and at this point I knew I had to get some gravy for an award for Les as the passion that he used to describe the food both in his poems and then outside of teh works was amazing. When asked why he came back to Mildura for the festival his response was again food related and was "where else can I get a free meal". Les' discussion on writing was also deep as he admitted that he doesn't know what he's thinking when he is writing it and it is only later when he looks at it that it makes sense.
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