Interviewer: Today we have Bruce Dawe on the show, prominent Australian Poet. Good Morning Mr. Dawe. Dawe: Good morning. Interviewer: As any reader of yours would know, you use a distinctive style in your poetry, a main characteristic of which is direct speech, this features in your Poems Big Jim and Enter Without so Much as Knocking, can you tell us why do you do this? Dawe: Yeah the two poems are pretty similar, in …showed first 75 words of 729 total…

…showed last 75 words of 729 total…in creating a personality for the character of Geoff, giving insight into what type of person he is, where he is from and what type of atmosphere he is currently in. As Paul Keating said in an interview a number of years back, "I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage", and like him, myself, Ray Lawler, and David Williamson all do the same. Interviewer: Thank you for your time Mr. Dawe,