What a poet can do these days, 1969

Record number
cm000559
Title

What a poet can do these days

Date
1969
Medium
conté
Support
paper
Dimensions
1515 x 547 mm (s)
Inscriptions

Genesis: Peter Hooper (conté crayon, b.l.); McCahon Aug 26 '69 (conté crayon, b.r.)

Extended inscriptions

WHAT A POET / CAN DO THESE DAYS / I DON'T KNOW / THERE ARE NO HEROES / TO SING NO PRIESTS / WHOSE HANDS ARE CLEAN / SO ALL HE CAN DO / IS TO CUT AWAY / SOMETHING GO BACK / TO THE BARE / VULNERABLE BEAUTY / OF THE FIRST / WORD
IT IS A MATTER / OF DEFINITION

Notes

The text is from Peter Hooper's poem 'Genesis', from Journey towards an elegy and other poems (Nag's Head Press, Christchurch, 1969).