Mark Pirie

The ninth issue of my poetry journal, broadsheet: new new zealand poetry, features the New Zealand jazz poet, L E Scott. The issue celebrates Scott's contribution to New Zealand writing over 30 or more years, and includes an article on the Ballroom Poetry Cafe in Wellington that he founded in 2010.

Also included is new work by Nicola Easthope, Rangi Faith, Cliff Fell, Basim Furat (Iraq/NZ), Tony Hopkins, Tim Jones, Wanjiku Kiarie, Robert McLean, Alistair Paterson, Vaughan Rapatahana (Hong Kong/NZ), Madeleine Marie Slavick (USA/Hong Kong/NZ), Alice Te Punga Somerville, Bill Sutton, Apirana Taylor, Teresia Teaiwa and Moira Wairama. 

To read the online pdf of the issue, go to: http://broadsheetnz.wordpress.com/current-issue/

In April 2012, the New Zealand Cricket Museum's new touch screen interactive sound display opened at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.

Four of my cricket poems and two photos of me have been included in the display.

A full report I wrote on the interactive appears on Beattie's Book Blog.

You can read the story online at: 
http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/basins-amazing-new-jukebox.html

The interactive is an amazing project to have been involved in. An historic and innovative display in relation to cricket museums worldwide.

My thanks go to the hard work of the museum's director David Mealing.

Last month, Wellington writer and editor Tim Jones interviewed me for his blog Books in the Trees (27 April 2012).

The interview gives a very good overview of my work in the past two years particularly with my research into forgotten or neglected New Zealand poets and poetry. It also discusses the cricket poetry anthology A Tingling Catch and my poetry writing.

You can read the full interview at: http://timjonesbooks.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/interview-with-mark-pirie.html

Tim also published my poem on The White Stripes as his Tuesday Poem selection that week.

A good and generous review of my cricket poetry anthology, A Tingling Catch, appeared in Cordite Poetry Review (20 February 2012) in Australia, an online review site for Australian and other miscellaneous books.

The review was written by the Australian poet Penelope Cottier, one of the Top 20 finalists for the 2011 Cricket Poetry Award.