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Stephen Oliver recently retired as Bishop of Stepney. Before that he was Senior Producer in BBC Religious Broadcasting, Vicar of Leeds, and Canon of St Paul's Cathedral.
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Unmanned - Stephen Oliver
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Title: Unmanned
Author: Stephen Oliver
Release Date: August 2, 2004 [eBook #13081]
Language: English
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Copyright (C) 1999 by Stephen Oliver
Unmanned
Stephen Oliver
Also by Stephen Oliver
& INTERVIEWS
(Horizontal Press, 1978)
EARTHBOUND MIRRORS
(Horizontal Press, 1984)
GUARDIANS, NOT ANGELS
(Hazard Press, 1993)
ISLANDS OF WILDERNESS A ROMANCE
(Penguin Australia, 1996)
HEADWORX WELLINGTON
(C) Stephen Oliver, 1999
First published 1999
ISBN 0-473-05753-0
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Contents
I
Cultural Misappropriation Word Maps 1. Down By The River 2. National Park Holiday 3. False Idols 4. Surveyors Party 5. Got Ourselves A Convoy! 6. Cultural Desert 7. Down By The Station 8. Continental Shelf Co. 9. Three Cheers The Militia! 10. Video Conference 11. Crow Country 12. Hills Of Home 13. Eco-Tourism Generation of Pat Boone & Tonto To Talk of Flags Words to Lure a Ghost Chistmas Emblems 1. Adam 2. Oblation 3. Detail 4. Born 5. Style 6. Beachcomber Transgenic Pigs Sheet Music Myth & Mariolatry Stork Unmanned Braidwood Modern Love Brilliant Losers Hotel Diligencias Wardrobe Drinkers Girl. Gold. Boat Domestic Pack Shots 1. The Gays Next Door 2. Working Hot 3. Hooking For Jesus 4. The Priest Across The Lane 5. Corruption Is Glorified Mateship 6. Inner City Camping Blues Tarts & Takeaways Who Killed Brett Whiteley Sugarbag Carpenter Aunty Eve Harold Lloyd Conrad & Wells & Co. Hoppalong Cassidy Bob Orr Dave Spencer You Dont Remember Dying Graham Clifford Bruno Lawrence The Still Watches
Poets have wrongd poor storms: such days are best;
They purge the air without, within the breast.
George Herbert
Cultural Misappropriation
is that what I hear you cry, citizen? If a delph-glazed moon with its O so delicate pattern pans over Holland, flat as a tack, it also comes by way of the Antarctic circle right to your doorstep in equal measure. If the sun clamps its golden torque on mosque or synagogue, pa, cathedral or sacred site, does this endorse any one people over another? Is it your wish to head off the cultural bandits at the historical impasse, citizen, by placing a patent on your mana? Beware the polemicists who define and so divide, who aggregate authority unto self where before lay none. Symbol becomes the circumference of time & custom. It is not the thing itself, but the beautiful echo of a peoples harmonic which cannot be bounded nor weakened. Here lies the camouflage that protects the ancient matrix, the silent memory of our bloods journey & sound leads you to it.
Word Maps
1. Down By The River
Of the brain, mushroom shaped as bomb blast, we project the image to fact; up river from the torrent, amongst the calmness of boulders, the angler shadow-casts looping the steady surface for the archetypal fish whose leapt arch anticipates t but the headwaters are held greyly back by a concrete-net on this dappled and uncaptured urban afternoon. He deftly flicks & spools back and forth from channel to channel.
2. National Park Holiday
If you go into the woods today you will be part of a task force moving in line-formation. You will allow that the plastic yellow tape which cordons off select areas does not imply a Sacred Grove. If you go into the woods today, disinterment, not picnics, is the order of inquiry. The Vegetable Kingdom remains thoroughly documented and every species is accounted for; some of whom are human, or parts thereof.
3. False Idols
It was