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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.

 

The Night Press publishes Niel Wright's The Imaginings of the Heart and Ivy Gibbs' Selected Poems

Posted Saturday, October 3, 2026 by Mark Pirie
Archived as The Night Press, Ivy Gibbs, Niel Wright

In October, The Night Press published two chapbooks of classic New Zealand poetry: The Imaginings of the Heart by Niel Wright and Selected Poems by Ivy Gibbs.

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.