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The New Zealand Poet Laureate blog: August 2015

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Monday, August 31, 2015. Vince O’Sullivan’s final laureate blog was about his discovery of the poetry of Iain Lonie, and the launch of Lonie’s. By University of Otago Press in Dunedin, and how good the poems were – so for the sake of continuity I will begin there. I knew Lonie many years ago and have a brief piece about him coming in a collection of essays, lectures, reviews and reminiscences to be published next year by Auckland University Press with the title. 1951-2006, pp 24, and 511.]. Marking the p...

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The New Zealand Poet Laureate blog: Inflation

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Friday, May 14, 2010. Inflation ' is the fourth part of Cilla McQueen's. Which is being published on this blog in small sections every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The preceding chapters were:. Next week we begin chapter 5 - 'Pleochroic'. Acanthus leaves carved like lawnmower tracks through the plush velvet of his armchair. Most of his clothes were drying on the clothes-horse. Steam rose from the socks. Wavering upright in the draught a white thread loose from a buttonhole caused Digby to. Pearled with ...

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The New Zealand Poet Laureate blog: Persecuted poets worldwide

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Last week, as we celebrated International Poetry Day, PEN International posted this less celebratory but essential reading. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The award's history, the Laureate role and responsibilities, and how Laureates are chosen. Learn about the award. The New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2015-2017 is Christian Karlson Stead, poet, novelist, critic. Serial, a novella in eight chapters with images from the collections of the National Library. Swoonrocket - Juli...

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The New Zealand Poet Laureate blog: Nanoflowers

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010. Nanoflowers' is the seventh part of Cilla McQueen's. Which is being published on this blog in small sections every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The preceding chapters were:. On Friday we begin the final chapter of the novella - 'Edwin's Egg'. Eric the Red scanned Births Deaths and Marriages. So Beryl finally had her diamond ring. He closed the newspaper and folded it precisely. Eggtimer. Preserve in waterglass. Seal the pores. He picked up a cracked shell. He looked up at th...

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The New Zealand Poet Laureate blog: Poetry by Iain Lonie

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Poetry by Iain Lonie. Monday, May 25, 2015. During the recent Dunedin Writers Festival Otago University Press launched the large and handsome. A Place To Go On From: The Collected Poems of Iain Lonie. Edited by David Howard. Lonie, who worked in the Classics Department at Otago University, was an internationally respected medical historian, and died in Dunedin in 1988. My cover note for the volume touched briefly on my respect for his work:. A Place To Go On From. 8211; Vincent O'Sullivan. Still mud-cake...

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The New Zealand Poet Laureate blog: Poetry by John Dennison

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Poetry by John Dennison. Wednesday, February 11, 2015. This week Auckland University Press publishes. 8211; Vincent O’Sullivan. Hear John read "There’s one straight out of the box" at. Later this year Oxford University Press is bringing out John’s. Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry. Hear Seamus Heaney read 11 of his poems. John Dennison. Photo by Robert Cross. To keep warm inside. Under the bitter yoke. Of these red untempered mornings,. Steer the car like a life raft. Down Cumberland to this.

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The New Zealand Poet Laureate blog: Call for nominations

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Monday, May 04, 2015. The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa is seeking nominations for the New Zealand Poet Laureate Award. Poetry is a quintessential part of New Zealand art and culture, and through the New Zealand Poet Laureate Award the government acknowledges the value that New Zealanders place on poetry as a part of our national identity. Download the nomination form (docx, 55KB). Download the background information (docx, 57KB). Nominations close on Monday, 6 July. Pleas...

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The New Zealand Poet Laureate blog: Poetry by Dunstan Ward

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Poetry by Dunstan Ward. Monday, February 09, 2015. Anyone interested in writing from the First World War, or the towering figure of Robert Graves in twentieth century poetry, is likely to know Dunstan Ward as the editor, with Beryl Graves, of the splendid three volume Carcanet edition of. Robert Graves: Complete Poems. He was also the editor of. And the president of the Graves Society. Dunstan Ward. Photo by Véronique Ward-Viarnes. In May this year, and his work is soon to appear in the. Too light to last.

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The New Zealand Poet Laureate blog: Poetry by Peter Belton

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Poetry by Peter Belton. Tuesday, May 05, 2015. 8211; Vincent O'Sullivan. All said and done, they left the bankrupt with only a. Mirror which shattered anyway through his distraction. Collapsing hours spent in half-light before a window of white canvas. Into a stare. So much time to think. Thick with the dusty stuff of pigment let him paint. An inch thick; for we must come to this. Saskia with blood in. Her mouth. Geertje’s exhausted eyes puzzled with weeping and. Or reflection to the timeless wall? Embed...