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The Voice of Things

24 Tuesday Nov 2015

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Japanese legends, Kipling Year, Poetry, Rudyard Kipling, The Coastwise Lights, The Deep-Sea Cables

English: Kipling the British writer

Kipling wrote a good deal of poems in which the narrating “I” or “we” belongs to inanimate objects. Ships, places, pieces of equipment, mechanical parts… They come to life to describe the joys and strains of their “jobs”, history as seen through their “eyes”.

Whenever I read one of these poems, I can’t help thinking of those Japanese legends where an object takes on some sort of life by long association with and use by human beings… A concept I’ve always found highly poetic.

I wonder if Kipling knew of this legends… Continue reading →

Seers and Storytellers

09 Thursday Jul 2015

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Kipling Year, Many Inventions, Poetry, Rudyard Kipling, storytelling, writing

inkwellThe Finest Story in the World has to be one of my favourite Kipling stories. It certainly was one of the first I read, many years ago, in a more than decent Italian translation, back when I still believed Kipling was just the man of the Jungle Books and Kim. Let us say that this particular short story, taken from Many Inventions, was a relevant step towards discovery. Continue reading →

Mistakes under the Deodars

30 Saturday May 2015

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Kipling Year, Rudyard Kipling, Under the Deodars

I-never-made-a-mistake

Another piece of K-wisdom… Yes, well perhaps “wisdom” isn’t quite the word – but frankly, I yearn for the chance of saying this to someone – pausing just so at the semi-column. Continue reading →

The Power of the Dog

31 Tuesday Mar 2015

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Actions and Reactions, Dogs, Kipling Year, Poetry, Rudyard Kipling

stanleyFor Kipling Day, a poem from the 1909 collection Actions and Reactions. It goes with the story Garm – a Hostage.

If you ever had and loved a dog – or a cat, for that matter – then you know what this is all about… Continue reading →

The Recall

07 Saturday Feb 2015

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Actions and Reactions, Kipling Year, Poetry, Rudyard Kipling, University of Adelaide

ActionsA little Kipling today – it’s his year, after all.

I love The Recall, a little poem taken from Action and Reactions – one of many collections of short stories and poetry.

It is a small, dream-like thing of home-coming – even when you don’t know you are coming home – and the power of place, something that, according to Peter Ackroyd, is deeply rooted in English imagination. Continue reading →

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