Seven Visions of Robert Harris

Seven Visions of Robert Harris – Alan Wearne
Alan Wearne is a poet and CEO of Grand Parade Poets. He regards The Gang of One as among the most major volumes of Australian Poetry to be published so far this century. At the Melbourne launch of Robert’s The Cloud Passes Over Alan saw him reading his poetry by heart, a feat he had never seen before, nor has since.

Seven Visions of Robert Harris – Robert Drummond
Artist, poet and Geelong identity Robert Drummond knew Robert for much of his career. Here he gives an account of a series of readings Robert participated in one weekend during the Eighties. Would that more readings were like these.

Seven Visions of Robert Harris – Terry Darmody
Musician Terry Darmody know Robert through their activists’ involvement in Sydney’s Christian Life Centre.

Seven Visions of Robert Harris – Philip Mead
Philip Mead, poet and academic in Australian Literature, knew Robert from a time when both were poetry editors of two parallel literary journals, Meanjin (Philip) and Overland (Robert).

Seven Visions of Robert Harris – Judith Beveridge
Judith Beveridge is a leading Australian poet whose devotion in editing The Gang of One deserves to be legendary.

Seven Visions of Robert Harris – John Jenkins
John Jenkins was one of Robert’s many friends in the Melbourne and Sydney poetry worlds. One evening both poets wandered into the Paperback Bookshop where Alan Wearne was serving behind the counter. They were drunk, though not too drunk.

Seven Visions of Robert Harris – Jenny O’Driscoll
Jenny O’Driscoll was Robert’s partner for eight years. They remained close friends and she was instrumental in his conversion not to a particular brand of Christianity but, as she says, ‘…in the sense of how a real relationship with God comes through what Jesus did for him on the cross, personally.’

 

Tim Grey & Elliot Clifford – Videographers
Andrea Day – Video Editor
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