Graeme Ellis
Graeme Ellis (b. 1944) is a Melbourne-born poet whose verse has been set in contemporary Australian art song.
His words form the text of the song cycle Fortune My Foe (MCD 435), a charity recording for soprano and piano that pairs his poetry with newly written music.
Ellis’s Seven Tanka, cast in the five-line Japanese form and sparked by hearing an earlier song-cycle performance, appear on The Prospect and Bower of Bliss (TP240), set for two sopranos with percussion and shakuhachi. The poems share with that disc’s companion cycle a vivid sense of nature, intimacy and emotional immediacy.
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The Prospect and Bower of Bliss
The Prospect and Bower of Bliss presents two song cycles by Australian composer Johanna Selleck, setting poetry by Aphra Behn (1640–1689) and Melbourne poet Graeme Ellis (1944–).