David Malouf
David Malouf reads his own poetry in the studio, drawing on collections that span three decades. The voice is intimate and inviting, carrying domestic memory, landscape and the long sequence The Crab Feast.
Poems arrive from Four Poets and Bicycle and Other Poems through Neighbours in a Thicket, First Things Last and Poems 1959–1989. A grandmother's house, foxes, a school athletics day, wild lemons and an ode at Stravinsky's grave sit beside the ten-part Crab Feast. Known widely for his fiction, he returns the verse to speech with quiet, unhurried authority that makes the page feel close at hand.
David Malouf is featured on the following titles
David Malouf Reads from Poems 1959–89
By the mid-1990s Malouf was among Australia's best-known writers, his poetry somewhat overshadowed by the novels. These studio readings remain intimate and inviting, the poet's own voice carrying the work.
Narrator: Voice
Songwriter: Poet