Wellington Fool
Wellington Fool is Mark Pirie's thirteenth poetry
collection. Published in the ESAW mini series, Wellington
Fool consists of 15 new poems and includes a photo of the
author by John Girdlestone (after the John Cougar Mellencamp album
photo for American Fool).
The poems, mainly situated in Wellington, comment on events
social, personal and political. Highlights include a trip to Frank
Sargeson's cottage on Esmonde Rd, Auckland, an elegy for Aotearoa
and Maori music icon Dalvanius Prime and a poem written at Te
Herenga Waka Marae, Wellington, for writer/poet Apirana Taylor.
Popular music artists and groups like Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Dylan,
Joni Mitchell, Sonic Youth, and U2 also feature in the poems.