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HeadworX republishes forgotten Canterbury poet

Posted Monday, November 11, 2013 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, HeadworX Publishers, A Stanley Sherratt

My publishing company HeadworX in Association with Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop has just released a new edition of early New Zealand poet A. Stanley Sherratt's Maori myths/legends, Polynesian Legends. The edition includes a substantial introduction by Dr Michael O'Leary and comment by Vaughan Rapatahana.

A. Stanley Sherratt (b. 1891) is a Canterbury poet of interest for his early sequence of poems on Maori myths/legends that were ground-breaking for his time period (the 1920s) and still make for powerful reading today.

See the book information page here for more details.

Copies can be purchased from me directly using the contact form on this website.

 

Poetry NZ reviews Robert J Pope

Posted Monday, September 9, 2013 by Mark Pirie
Archived as HeadworX Publishers, Robert J Pope

An excellent review of the book I edited by Robert J Pope recently appeared in Poetry NZ 47 (August 2013):

ALISTAIR PATERSON, Editor of Poetry NZ

King Willow, Selected Poems, Robert J Pope, edited Mark Pirie (HeadworX Publishers 4C/19 Cottleville Tce, Thorndon, Wellington; 192 pp) is a scholarly piece of research - a timely and substantial publication. It presents much of the work of Robert J Pope (1865-1949) who had largely dropped out of sight and might otherwise have remained so, as have many other poets who preceded Allen Curnow's 1945 A Book of New Zealand Verse and became overwhelmed by the latter's new orthodoxy. In this respect, Mark Pirie has done stupendous work in rediscovering him (as he has many other writers) and bringing him back into notice. Pope certainly deserves such discovery and recognition. A long term and substantial writer, he 'deserves' as Pirie says, 'recognition ... as a significant precursor to the urban 1950s Wellington Group'. This is an enlightening and extremely worthwhile publication.

Copies of King Willow can be purchased from me directly using the contact form on this website.

HeadworX publishes new book by John O'Connor

Posted Monday, September 9, 2013 by Mark Pirie
Archived as HeadworX Publishers, John O'Connor

My publishing company HeadworX has just released eminent New Zealand poet John O'Connor's 10th book of poetry, Aspects of Reality.

For full details on the book and author visit the HeadworX website:

http://headworx.eyesis.co.nz/poetry/aspects.php

Copies can be purchased from me directly using the contact form on this website.

HeadworX republishes forgotten NZ poet Robert J Pope

Posted Friday, December 21, 2012 by Mark Pirie
Archived as HeadworX Publishers, Robert J Pope

My publishing company HeadworX has just released a new edition of early New Zealand author and songwriter Robert J Pope's poetry, King Willow, a substantial edition with accompanying introduction, notes and bibliographical material.

Robert J Pope (1865-1949) is a Wellington poet of interest for his poems covering the two world wars and the All Blacks "Invincibles" tour of 1924/25 as well as suburban satires of Wellington city-life (fashion, sport, politics and culture 1902-44) that still ring true today.

See the book information page here for more details.

Copies can be purchased from me directly using the contact form on this website.

A report on the book launch was on Beattie's Book Blog, 6 December 2012.

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