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Mark Pirie's edited edition of F W N Wright's Selected Post Alexandrian Poems released

Posted Saturday, October 31, 2026 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Mark Pirie, Niel Wright, Selected Post Alexandrian Poems

In November, my edited selection of F W N (Niel) Wright's Selected Post Alexandrian Poems will be released by Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop.

I spent considerable time reading through the 4,000 poems Wright wrote in the final sixteen years of his life. The book is a representative selection of his later work, Post Alexandrian Poems, a coda or parallel to his epic poem, The Alexandrians.

Together this book and the earlier book of his selected poems, The Pop Artist's Garland, keep in print the best of his formalist poems and his ongoing variations on the English triolet.

The book will be available in hardback only from the Lulu indie bookstore.

 

50 Poems by 50 Poets edited by Mark Pirie now available as a free eBook

Posted Friday, September 18, 2026 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Mark Pirie, 50 Poems by 50 Poets

In 2004, I edited a selection of recent New Zealand poetry 50 Poems by 50 Poets for papertiger new world poetry on CD-ROM in Australia.

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.

 

 

 

 

Mark Pirie compiles an anthology of the ESAW Poetry Prize winners

Posted Friday, February 7, 2020 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Michael O'Leary, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, ESAW Poetry Prize, Mark Pirie

February 2020 sees the release of an anthology I compiled of the winners of the ESAW Poetry Prize, 2007-2019.

It is published in the relaunched ESAW Mini Series (No. 36).

The winners are: Evelyn Conlon 2007, Will Leadbeater 2008, Jill Chan 2009, Robin Fry 2010, Barry Southam 2011, Jeanne Bernhardt 2016, Mary Maringikura Campbell 2017, Bill Dacker 2018 and Jeremy Roberts 2019.

Here is the link to the publisher's blog:
https://michaeloleary.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/esaw-publishes-the-esaw-poetry-prize-anthology/

Mark Pirie and Tim Jones publish Star Words

Posted Wednesday, December 18, 2019 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Tim Jones, Mark Pirie, Science Fiction and speculative poetry, Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand

In December, a new anthology of Science Fiction and speculative poetry, Star Words, compiled by Tim Jones and myself featured in the relaunched ESAW mini series.

We compiled the A6 booklet anthology from poems read on 30 October 2019 at the 10th anniversary reading for Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, winner of the Vogel Award for Best Collected Work 2009. Tim Jones and I co-edited Voyagers together. The event was held at Vic Books, Lambton Quay.

Contributors to Star Words include Janis Freegard, Tim Jones, Harvey Molloy, Vivienne Plumb, Nick Ascroft, Margaret Jeune, Tabatha Wood, Tony Hopkins,  Michael O’Leary and myself.

We have dedicated the booklet to the memory of  B. E. Turner, technical editor of the ESAW Mini Series, d. October 2019.

Here's the link to the publisher's blog:
https://michaeloleary.wordpress.com/2019/12/15/esaw-publishes-star-words-mini-book-anthology/

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