It's published as part of a continuing series of chapbooks by The Night Press that includes Alex Jeune, Mark Pirie, Jeanne Bernhardt, Margaret Jeune, Niel Wright, Ivy Gibbs and MaryJane Thomson.

O'Leary's book is available online at lulu bookstore: Shop the Indie Online Bookstore | Lulu

The Earl of Seacliff himself was the MC at the event and is also the publisher of the book Poets XI. I selected a team of poets on the day that had attended my launch of the book A Tingling Catch at the Basin.

Cricket historian and writer Don Neely launched the book.

Poets are: Nicola Easthope, Tim Jones, Harry Ricketts, Michael O'Leary, John Ansell, Nelson Wattie, Niel Wright, David McGill, Richard Langston, Don Neely and Mark Pirie the captain.

The cover photo is by Madeleine Slavick of Don Neely crossing the Basin.

An appendix offers some of the New Zealand literature XIs made by writers over the years. Poets XI is a unique piece of cricketing memorabilia.

In Memoriam is a collection of obituaries and tributes to poets and writers I have written for the Poetry Archive of NZ Aotearoa newsletter and website between 2008 and 2026. I have written on friends and contacts I have been involved with as a poet and publisher over the years and other notable poets and writers. The book offers poignant tributes and often illuminating and detailed write ups of writing lives. Writers included: Bernard Gadd, Harvey McQueen, David Mitchell, Larry Matthews, John d'Estaing Adams aka Kenny the Busker, Cyril Childs, Les Cleveland, John O'Connor, Ruth Gilbert, Rachel Bush, Teresia Teaiwa, P V Reeves, Laura Solomon, Yilma Tafere Tasew, Robin Fry, Bill Sutton, Iain Sharp, Moshé Liba, Tim Shadbolt, Ron Palenski, John Irvine, André Surridge, Will Leadbeater, Niel Wright, Nadine LaHatte, Brian Turner, Noeline Gannaway, Vincent O'Sullivan and Riemke Ensing.

The book will be available at lulu.com bookstore.

Niel Wright was the most prolific poet of New Zealand in the 1960s. In 1966, he had a book published in America by The Chiron Press in Lawrence, Kansas. The Imaginings of the Heart includes forms that Wright became a foremost writer of such as the epigram and triolet. Other poems explore the Classical poet Palladus and range widely on ancient and modern subjects, a feature of his epic poem The Alexandrians. This edition marks 60 years since the book was published and recognises a significant New Zealand poet.

Ivy Gibbs was well known for her verse in Australia and New Zealand from 1920-1948. In 1949, Arhur H. Stockwell published her work in England as The Day is in a Pensive Mood. Selected Poems provides an introduction to her verse selected from newspapers, magazines and anthologies, and shows a significant New Zealand poet.

The books will be available at lulu.com bookstore.

The CD-ROM version included flash poems, visual poems, music and hip hop tracks and audio poems.

The anthology has been lost to New Zealand records, but I have now been able to make a PDF archival edition of the poems as texts for researchers and readers for future use.

The 2026 archival edition is published by Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop and is available for free download from my website.

The poems were mostly published before in the anthology Boots (HeadworX, 2017).

There is the addition of 6 more poems written since that anthology appeared, including the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

The book covers the New Zealand All Whites, my club Nottingham Forest F.C., World Cups, the FA Cup and injury time as well as my own playing days as a teenager.

It is available at Lulu online bookstore.

In September, I decided to make the book available in print as well. The new edition can now be bought from Lulu.com Bookstore.

Previously my early poetry had been innovating away from this local tradition. 

Poets Hone Tuwhare, Kevin Ireland, Clive James, John O'Connor, Michael Duffett (USA), Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Meg Campbell and songwriter Mahinarangi Tocker receive elegies. 

Poet and editor Tony Beyer says of the book: "[Pirie's] poems have real depth and maturity, and I applaud their consistent respect for and celebration of the life of poetry. Respect and compassion for people, too. Pirie’s work always seems to have been headed this way, with an accurate ability to make the personal universal.”

It's published as part of a continuing series of chapbooks by The Night Press that includes Alex Jeune, Mark Pirie, Jeanne Bernhardt and MaryJane Thomson.

Jeune's book is available online at lulu bookstore: Shop the Indie Online Bookstore | Lulu

The journal is an international bilingual poetry magazine edited by Hassanal Abdullah, the author of more than 50 books. He has appeared at poetry festivals in China, Poland, Greece, Mexico, Canada and India.

Abdullah recently edited a World Poetry Anthology on Amazon. See the publisher's website: World Poetry Anthology / Edited by Hassanal Abdullah — Darklight Publishing LLC

He approached me to be included as a NZ poet known overseas to Professor Nicholas Birns of NYU. I served on the advisory board of Antipodes (USA). When the copy arrived, I found myself alongside many distinguished poets, including the 2020 Nobel Prize winning poet Louise Glück, Australian John Kinsella and the Arab poet Adonis.