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RonPrice · 07-16-2006, 06:38 AM

I write a great deal about Canada and Australia, trying to define my hybridity...here is a little piece for everone's delectation.-Ron Price, Tasmania
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Poetry, for me, is a reflection on my experience, an experience shaped by living in twenty-two towns from one end to another of two continents, Canada and Australia. By the time I started writing poetry seriously in 1992 at the age of 48, I had a need to forge my own language, to define my identity, my self, my religion, my life. There were so many sensations which twenty-five years of wandering offered me: immense distances; a complex interplay of past, present and future, self and other; the erotic and the sensual; the intellectual and the spiritual. They filled my mind to overflowing and my heart, my feelings, which often lit this overflowing mix ablaze, producing precious metals and gem stones of various kinds and black-grey ash to help make life’s soils less acidic.
-Ron Price with thanks to Nicholas Hasluck and Fay Zwicky, “Poetry”, The Literature of Western Australia, Bruce Bennett, editor, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1979, pp. 147-184.

The self-communing man is accepted
now, like the non-drinker at a party.
Privacy is something most people
understand, accept, let you be in your
own emotional world. They don’t drag
you willy-nilly into public life where you
can die of torture in the country of the mind.
With a little work you can cultivate that
drawbridge, that moat, which admits others
to friendship slowly. He learned that, not by
astringent skirmishes which can weed out
the wasters, but by simply keeping to him-
self, being accessible to those who sought
him, but maintaining jealously guarded privacy.*

Ron Price
28 December 1997

* With thanks to Roger White and his essay “Matinee For One”, The Witness of Pebbles, George Ronald, Oxford, 1981, p.162.

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RonPrice Upright Location: George Town Tasmania Australia	A Canadian In Australia Since 1971 I write a great deal about Canada and Australia, trying to define my hybridity...here is a little piece for everone's delectation.-Ron Price, Tasmania __________________________________________ ACCESSIBILITY Poetry, for me, is a reflection on my experience, an experience shaped by living in twenty-two towns from one end to another of two continents, Canada and Australia. By the time I started writing poetry seriously in 1992 at the age of 48, I had a need to forge my own language, to define my identity, my self, my religion, my life. There were so many sensations which twenty-five years of wandering offered me: immense distances; a complex interplay of past, present and future, self and other; the erotic and the sensual; the intellectual and the spiritual. They filled my mind to overflowing and my heart, my feelings, which often lit this overflowing mix ablaze, producing precious metals and gem stones of various kinds and black-grey ash to help make life’s soils less acidic. -Ron Price with thanks to Nicholas Hasluck and Fay Zwicky, “Poetry”, The Literature of Western Australia, Bruce Bennett, editor, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1979, pp. 147-184. The self-communing man is accepted now, like the non-drinker at a party. Privacy is something most people understand, accept, let you be in your own emotional world. They don’t drag you willy-nilly into public life where you can die of torture in the country of the mind. With a little work you can cultivate that drawbridge, that moat, which admits others to friendship slowly. He learned that, not by astringent skirmishes which can weed out the wasters, but by simply keeping to him- self, being accessible to those who sought him, but maintaining jealously guarded privacy.* Ron Price 28 December 1997 * With thanks to Roger White and his essay “Matinee For One”, The Witness of Pebbles, George Ronald, Oxford, 1981, p.162. __________________ Ron Price is a retired teacher, aged 67(in 2011). He taught for 35 years and is now a writer and editor, a poet and publisher. He has been a Baha'i for 52 years(also in 2011)