Lisa Walker: Powderly

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Lisa Walker

Powderly is a name on a house I saw in Melbourne in June, very odd, I've never seen this word before and even more unusual to name a house this.
I've been interested in unusual poetic titles lately, words that can mean many things, are quite strange the way they're written and spoken, and have something to do with my work.


" I think you work out something. I wouldn’t call them ideas. I think ideas are what you want to get rid of. I don’t really like songs with ideas. They tend to become slogans. They tend to be on the right side of things: ecology or vegetarianism or antiwar. All these are wonderful ideas but I like to work on a song until those slogans, as wonderful as they are, dissolve into deeper convictions of the heart. I never set out to write a didactic song. It’s just my experience. All I’ve got to put in a song is my own experience.“

Leonard Cohen interview
The Guardian February 2012
interviewer Dorian Lynskey