Voyager: Dr Gershon Maller

Voyager: Dr Gershon Maller Distinguished and award-winning Australian poet, long-time mentor of Sophia, and beloved friend, Dr. Gershon (Gary) Maller OBM, died this week in Melbourne after a long illness. Last week, I sent a friend a poem of Gary’s. The poem, Rogue Objects, is a terrific piece. It is, I said, “clever, philosophically grounded, metaphysically deep….and with a quirky humour.” It occurred to me afterwards that this is, in fact, an excellent description of

To Be…

To Be… An elegy by Gershon Maller, dedicated to Sophia, was recently selected for competition in the ACU Poetry Prize. The poem has now been published in the 2023 anthology, Love. In linguistics and logic, the principal copula verb (connecting subject and predicate) is, in English, the verb “to be.” I am. You are. She is. Such a little word, is, the full meaning of which is only truly apparent to us when we must live

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