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<DIV>It is a truth universally acknowledged that no serious poem about Virginia
Woolf fails to mention her suicide: see (1). However, I can’t decide
whether I don’t prefer (2) to (1) as *poetry*.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV>(1)</DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">After reading ‘The
Waves’</SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">We will never
be</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">afraid of Virginia Woolf
with those </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">huge light wells of eyes,
that face </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">as dreamily long as a
lonely </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">holiday. How on earth so
far from </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">heaven could she have
imagined </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">such monologues of naked
poetry? </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">To sustain a page’s almost
perfect </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">symmetry of sight and
sound must </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">have cost her many hours’
unease. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">Those taut threads of
vocal being </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">must have snapped loose
from her </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">spinning mind and the
bobbin of </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">her insight spun
dizzily—but where </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">could we find a knot in
that </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">weaving? What pulled all
the </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">threads loose a decade
later</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">and walked her into the
river’s arms </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">until it clasped its hands
over her </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">singing head, drowning
even her lake-</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">wide eyes in a waterfall
of words?</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">BRUCE BEAVER </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes">(“Sydney Morning Herald”,
29 June 1974, p. 15)</SPAN></P>
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<DIV>The problem we've had with some of our meat lately is about more than
burgers and bolognese.</DIV>
<DIV>It's about some of the ways we get meat to your dinner table. </DIV>
<DIV>It's about the whole food industry.</DIV>
<DIV>And it has made us realise, we really do need to make it better. </DIV>
<DIV>We've been working on it. but we need to keep going, go further, move
quicker. </DIV>
<DIV>We know that our supply chain is too complicated. </DIV>
<DIV>So we're making it simpler.</DIV>
<DIV>We know that the more we work with British farmers the better. </DIV>
<DIV>We've already made sure that all our beef is from the UK and Ireland.
</DIV>
<DIV>And now we're moving on to our fresh chickens. </DIV>
<DIV>By July, they'll all be from UK farms too. No exceptions. </DIV>
<DIV>For farmers to do what they do best, they need to know they've got our
support. </DIV>
<DIV>We know this because of the work we've been doing with our dairy farmers to
make sure they always get paid above the market price for milk.</DIV>
<DIV>We know that, no matter what you spend, everyone deserves to eat
well.</DIV>
<DIV>We know that all this will only work if we are open about what we do.
</DIV>
<DIV>And if you're not happy, tell us. </DIV>
<DIV>Seriously.</DIV>
<DIV>This is it.</DIV>
<DIV>We are changing.</DIV>
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