The Shape by Dejan Stojanovic

7/15/2012

Home of the Shape

We will go far away
To nowhere
To conquer
To fertilize
Until we become tired
Then we will stop
And there will be our home

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Neil Stanbury

2/18/2021 08:54:37 pm

Dear Dejan,

The Port of Fremantle is the most isolated major port in the world, on the western edge of Australia. it is a port with rich labour, migration, wartime and indigenous histories.
In the foyer of our headquarters, on Victoria Quay, we have the bell of the ship MV Gorgon, which was notable as a troop carrier for Australia during World War II and closely linked to our port.
Fremantle Ports would like to introduce a tradition of port staff and special guests ringing the Gorgon Bell by invitation, on special occasions. This would involve the addition of a brass plaque featuring what we think is an inspiring line by you. The inscription would be as follows:

From one bell all the bells toll
-Dejan Stojanovic

BY TRADITION, THE GORGON BELL MAY BE RUNG ON OCCASIONS OF SIGNIFICANCE BY FREMANTLE PORTS STAFF OR SPECIAL GUESTS,
AS DECREED BY THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER.

We would be delighted and honoured if you could grant your approval for us to do this, on the other side of the world!
I look forward to your response.
Yours sincerely,

Neil Stanbury
Manager Corporate and Community Relations
Fremantle Ports
neil.stanbury@fremantleports.com.au

Dejan Stojanovic

Dejan Stojanović was born in Pec, Kosovo (the former Yugoslavia). Although a lawyer by education, he has never practiced law and instead became a journalist. He is a poet, essayist, philosopher, and businessman and published six critically acclaimed books of poetry in Serbia: Circling, The Sun Watches Itself, The Sign and Its Children, The Shape, The Creator, and Dance of Time.

In addition to poetry and prose, he has worked as a correspondent for the Serbian weekly magazine Pogledi (Views) . His book of interviews from 1990 to1992 in Europe and America, entitled Conversations, included interviews with several major American writers, including Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Charles Simic, and Steve Tesic.

He has been living in Chicago since 1990.

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