The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
'In a phone conversation, Martin Langford asked me what I thought about intuition. I was stymied. I'd not thought of intuition in connection with inhabiting a poem, and I said I thought 'intuition' was a word like 'creativity' - too broad or general to speak of. "One person's creativity is another person's cliche: Martin suggested. "Yes," I said, "but I don't think in terms of intuition — I don't get a Muse leaning out of a cloud and saying 'Sharkey, take down the following,' or the Holy Spirit saying ' Now hear this'' (Introduction)
