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.
Credits
Elephantasy: Orchestral and Operatic Music of Eve Duncan
Orchestral, chamber and operatic works by Eve Duncan spanning 2012–2018: a piano concerto shaped by the Sydney Opera House, excerpts from her Malouf–James opera The Aspern Papers, and smaller chamber pieces for varied forces.