Literary works of Lyn Palmer 1934-1969
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Description: Lesbian poet from Melbourne, Australia. Poetry shows the struggles and mental torment of being gay in the 1950s-60s.
Angell Productions presents literature of L.R. Palmer I am one of those people who just can't follow directions. As soon as someone starts to give them to me, I go into a kind of coma... 'Now, you can't possibly go wrong if you...' and 'You can't miss it...' are the words that ring like a death knell in my head and cause my mental processes to seize up and converge into a mindless mass of gibbering brain cells. I'm one of those people who have never mastered how to fall off a log, so it is quite useless to tell me that something is as easy as that. I listen intelligently on the telephone when people give me involved directions, interjecting with 'uh-huh's' and 'oh yeh's' etc. and then I retire to maps and directories to work out involved routes on my own initiative. As this usually means that I go to Shepherd's Bush from Notting Hill via Reading, I always leave home three hours before my appointed time. I spend aeons changing buses, wandering in circles around squares, and finally land on my host's doorstep a nasty mess of jangled nerves: 'Hello, did you have much trouble finding us?' I give a false laugh and say hypocritically: 'How could I, after the directions you gave me,' and make for the liquor. In moments of defeat when I realize I've crossed the same street four times I hail a taxi. The driver looks at me a little oddly and drives me around the corner, and there I am. I have found in cases like this it is best to simulate a slight but noticeable limp and give him a Brave Smile when paying the fare.
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| Page title: | Angell Productions presents literature of L.R. Palmer |
| Keywords: | lesbian, gay, feminist, poems, poet, poetry, poetry site, site, prose, literary, literature, works, work, Lyn Palmer, L.R. Palmer, Melbourne |
| Description: | Poet L.R. Palmer was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 1st May 1934 and died aged only 34. Her work reflects the frustrations of a young lesbian trying to cope with the prejudices of the period. |
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