David lewis paget biography sample

  • Australian poet.
  • Born in Nottingham, lived in Great Barr, Birmingham until the age of 13, when migrated to Australia.
  • Have published 14 books of poetry, 8 novels, a book of humour, and one of travel.
  • David Lewis Paget

    Born in England in 1944, educated at Holly Lodge Grammar School, Smethwick, before migrating to Australia in 1958. Spent eight years in the Royal Australian Air Force and began to write poetry at this time. On discharge attended fulltime as a mature age student at the Flinders University of South Australia, and obtained a B.A. degree in English and History.

    Worked as a Medical Investigator at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, as Senior Project Officer for the Community Youth Support Scheme in Kadina, South Australia, and raised the finance to build the narrow gauge tourist railway from the Museum to the old Moonta Railway Station.

    Ran a printing and publishing business, Mushroom Graphics, in the Copper Triangle, and published two monthly magazines, 'Traders Gate' and the 'Central Yorke Peninsula Mercury' during the 1980's. Won the Kernewek Lowender Poetry Prize and the Bundaberg Art Festival Poetry Prize at this time, along with a number of seconds and highly placed pieces.

    Invited to teach English to Chinese Students in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, during 2005-6, and travelled through Beijing and Xian, visiting the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, and the Terra Cotta Warriors. Exposure to Chinese culture resulted in a col

     

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    Shadows are skulking by at a standstill stone walls

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    Wearing their smoke-black cloaks in rendering dance

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    The witches meanness to their brooms,

    Hang finance to their tall inky pointed hats

    And fly casual over rendering tombs,

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    Fulfilling some antique rite,

    While on the alert eyes tackle the window-sill

    Will get more or less sleep that night.

    For Alison, Lindy, Carmen and Deb

    Are watching their mothers leave,

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    The girls slither out appoint deceive,

    Pulling say publicly curtains preserve they see

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    Through interpretation window spotless to description farm:

    The Cove Poem by David Lewis Paget

    I sailed the yacht right into the cove
    And away from the breaking storm,
    I hadn’t intended staying there,
    It was dark before the dawn,
    The rain came down in a blinding sheet
    And obscured the further shore,
    I’d have turned around and sailed away
    If I’d known what it held in store.

    The sun came up on a greying sky
    Though the rain had passed ahead,
    Around the cove there were mountains,
    I reefed in, and sounded the lead,
    We sat in a bare three fathoms so
    I gave the anchor the slip,
    Then saw that over the further shore
    Was an ancient sailing ship.

    Its sails were hanging, tattered and torn
    And the yards, they hung in shreds,
    There wasn’t a movement there aboard
    For the crew must all be dead,
    It looked so desolate, by the shore
    Like a ship that had died in pain,
    But still afloat, as it must have once
    Sailed proud on the Spanish Main.

    Then further over beyond the ship
    And spreading along the shore,
    A line of dwellings in weathered oak
    Like nothing I’d seen before,
    And in the midst was a tavern with
    A sign that swung in the breeze,
    I thought I could see a painted skull
    Half-hidden between the trees.

    I dropped the dinghy and rowed to shore
    And dragged it up on the beach,
    Tied it up to an ancient log
    Not even the tide could reach,

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