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Poetry by Mark Pirie in the NZ Cricket Museum Newsletter

Posted Friday, July 29, 2011 by Mark Pirie
Archived as A Tingling Catch, Cricket poetry, New Zealand Cricket Museum Newsletter, The Second Test

The latest edition of the NZ Cricket Museum Newsletter, Winter/Spring 2011, includes a series of poems from my recent anthology A Tingling Catch, including three of my own, further information about the museum's touch-screen interactive project and a prose piece by Madeleine Marie Slavick on Jonny Brugh's one-man play The Second Test (also included on the Tingling Catch blog).

You can download the newsletter as a free PDF from New Zealand Cricket's website.

The poems from A Tingling Catch were 'The Record' and 'To Bert Sutcliffe, Master Batsman' (my own poems), 'Ken Wadsworth' by Brian Turner, 'Poet & Cricketer' by Ron Riddell (for the late David Mitchell) and 'A Tribute to R J Hadlee' by Ian Donnelly.

A further poem of mine, 'At the Basin' for Daniel Vettori, first published by Joseph Romanos in The Wellingtonian, was also included.

Thanks to David Mealing at the New Zealand Cricket Museum for his work on this as well as the exciting new touch-screen interactive initiative.

The New Zealand Cricket Museum now has a new website: www.nzcmuseum.co.nz

A Tingling Catch reviewed in Investigate

Posted Friday, July 29, 2011 by Mark Pirie
Archived as A Tingling Catch, Cricket poetry, Investigate

A good review of my anthology A Tingling Catch by Michael Morrissey appeared in the New Zealand magazine Investigate, April 2011.

Mark Pirie's A Tingling Catch in Wisden Cricketer

Posted Friday, April 22, 2011 by Mark Pirie
Archived as A Tingling Catch, Cricket poetry, Wisden Cricketer

I was delighted to find my anthology of cricket poetry, A Tingling Catch, mentioned in this month's April edition of The Wisden Cricketer (UK), 'the world's No.1 cricket magazine'.

A Tingling Catch is given a brief review alongside recent cricket books including Gideon Haigh's book on the 2010-11 Ashes Series in Australia.

The link for the magazine is: http://www.thecricketer.com/MAGAZINE.aspx

Mark Pirie on Sky Sport 1

Posted Saturday, April 9, 2011 by Mark Pirie
Archived as A Tingling Catch, Cricket poetry, Cricket Company - Sky Sport 1

A Tingling Catch: A Century of New Zealand Cricket Poems 1864-2009 edited by Mark Pirie (published by HeadworX) appeared on "National Bank Cricket Company", Sky Sport 1 (New Zealand channel), Thursday 24 March 2011.

I was interviewed for the show at the NZ Cricket Museum, Basin Reserve, along with cricket historian Don Neely (who wrote the foreword) and Radio NZ National's Jack Perkins reading poem excerpts from the book and talking about the poems that were read. It's a short segment so not all of the material recorded will be used.

The show was shown several times and was replayed on Sky Sport channels. The segment will be posted on the "Cricket Company" web page. Go to http://www.skysport.co.nz/ and click on "Cricket Company".

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