Robert Gray was born in Coffs Harbour, a small town on the north coast of New South Wales. In the 1970s, he settled in Sydney, where he still lives. His love of the countryside of his native region, his interest in poetry, Zen-Buddhism and painting formed early on a counterweight to his precarious family situation, about which he writes for the ...

Robert Gray’s forlorn attitude renders dusk a disconsolate manifestation that actuates the abandonment of the harbor. The yachts underscore the desolateness of the harbor because they sail as if they are heading to ‘an evening confessional.’

His love of the countryside of his native region, his interest in poetry, Zen-Buddhism and painting formed early on a counterweight to his precarious family situation, about which he writes for the first time – frankly and with much humour – in his autobiographical prose work A Light in the Porch (due to appear later in 2008).

'Gray has been a daring and original experimenter in the free verse line, and also at times with traditional forms. Equally, his work is notable for its frequent, uncanny rightness in the creation of images. His thinking shows a remarkable fluency in both Eastern and Western philosophies (Gray has referred to himself as a Buddhist heretic).

Robert William Geoffrey Gray is an Australian poet, freelance writer, and critic. Gray grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales. He trained there as a journalist, and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising copywriter, reviewer and buyer for bookshops.

Technique: Simile Analysis: - Gray relates these melancholy emotions evoked in Harbour Dusk to nursing sisters (who have experienced trauma from observing illness and death) or nuns who are going to a confessional - The image conveying the nuns at an evening confessional may reflect the persona's hesitation to speak about his own situation

Before us, across the oily, aubergine dark. against a far shore of dark, crumbling bush. Part of the city, to our left, was fruit shop bright. After the summer day, a huge, moist hush. The yachts were far across their empty fields of water. One, at times, was gently rested like a quill. always hovering, as though resolve were ill.

Before us, across the oily, aubergine dark. against a far shore of dark, crumbling bush. Part of the city, to our left, was fruit shop bright. After the summer day, a huge, moist hush. The yachts were far across their empty fields of water. One, at times, was gently rested like a quill. always hovering, as though resolve were ill.

“Harbour Dusk” calls attention to the final stages of a day: “She and I came wandering/ there through an empty park,/and we laid our hands on a stone parapet’s/fading life. Before us, across the oily, aubergine dark/of the harbour, we could make out yachts –/beneath an overcast sky, that was mauve underlit.”

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