Saturday, June 7, 2008

Kate Jennings on Slow Tv: the grace of accuracy






Another Slow TV video - from a recent 'In conversation' event at Readings book store in Carlton, Victoria. Elliot Perlman with Kate Jennings.











When Jennings reads from her elegy 'Without preamble: Martin Johnston 1947-1990' she begins with a epigram from a Robert Lowell poem that could well do to describe her writing voice:

Yet why not say what happened/ pray for the grace of accuracy

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