If this is true, you’d be a Democrat VP candidate in no time.

I’m guessing he influenced my own poetry, though mine may even be darker as it deals with depression and my struggles with bipolar 2 :(

But it seems increasingly like a lost art form now.

Thanks for that… I’ve never read it before. It has some haunting and beautiful phrases. It must mean a lot given you read it for your Dads funeral.

Slessor’s wording like ‘sobbing and clubbing’ to describe gunfire and the rolling bodies in the waves in poems like ‘Beach Burial’ - amazing.

Determined by Robert Sapolsky (highly recommended), The Origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind (Julian Jaynes) - controversial, somewhat outdated but amazing paradigm shift, The Master and his Emmisary (Ian McGilchrist), Descartes Error by Antonio Damasio. consciousness focus

Kenneth Slessor is perhaps my favourite Australian poet.

I’ve had quite the 5-7 year transformation as a relatively recently minted ‘free will denier’… :)

Do you read non-fiction also?

I have some amazing additions for non Fiction (and got some suggestions for my fiction reading list - thx).

Do you read poetry?

I could add some less ‘worthy’ books that are good reads, but not in the same class given the author list - Heller, Adams, Lee etc