The Daily Poem / The Blue Apron

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David Malouf, novelist and poet, is internationally recognised as one of Australia's finest contemporary writers. His novels include Johnno, An Imaginary Life, Harland's Half Acre and The Great World, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Priz Femina Etranger in 1991. He has also written three opera libretti and eight collections of poetry. This poem is from his new collection Selected Poems 1959-89 published by Chatto & Windus at pounds 8.99.

This is the last poem in this week's series on the colour blue.