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In September, The Night Press published a new collection of Margaret Jeune's poems written since the publication of her Selected Poems in 2021.
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 Night Press, a division of HeadworX my publishing company, has just brought out a small printed edition of cat poems by Margaret Jeune, Cat World. Written over many years, it conveys her personal experiences as a cat owner and carer.
The book contains some poems I omitted from her recent career-spanning, Selected Poems. Put together the poems form a neat sequence on the subject of cats.
In March 2021, my publishing company HeadworX released the Selected Poems of Margaret Jeune in hardback.
I personally edited/compiled the book, some 270 pages, from Margaret's previously published collections with HeadworX along with 51 uncollected poems from the pages of Tony Chad's poetry magazine Valley Micropress along with a section of new and uncollected poems. The book is the first to present Jeune's work in chronological order from 1968-2020.
I am very pleased to include this title in the HeadworX New Poetry Series.
For more details on the book, please visit the HeadworX website:
Selected Poems by Margaret Jeune
June 2020 saw the release of an anthology of national lockdown poems by myself, Alex Jeune and Margaret Jeune.
I put together the sequence from our poems written during the COVID-19 national lockdown period, March to May 2020, in New Zealand.
The book gives three differing perspectives by New Zealand poets on the global crisis and is our personal responses to it. Our book is not meant to speak for everyone’s thoughts and feeling during the lockdown period in New Zealand. We hope it gives an affirming sense to readers of what we have all been through and endured during the lockdown in New Zealand.
It is published in the relaunched ESAW Mini Series (No. 39).
Here's the link to the publisher's blog:
https://michaeloleary.wordpress.com/2020/07/16/esaw-publishes-lockdown-mini-book/