This is Mark's blog.
Last weekend, 24 November 2013, there aired the Doctor Who 50th anniversary feature in New Zealand on Prime TV.
I wrote a poem to celebrate Doctor Who's anniversary:
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As a boy I grew up watching Tom Baker as Doctor Who in the 1980s. I continue to follow the series, including the latest 11th Doctor Matt Smith.
Happy birthday Doctor Who!
An interesting review of my latest poetry book, Old Hat: A Book of Triolets, appeared in Landfall Online Review.
The reviewer Lynley Edmeades gives an objective and informed view of what I was attempting with the triolet form in Old Hat.
Here's the link:
http://landfallreviewonline.blogspot.com/2013/10/he-wrote-list-of-what-hed-lost.html
I will appear in the forthcoming anthology, Notes for the Translators: Poems from 142 New Zealand and Australian Poets.
The book is intended to be offered to Chinese mainstream publishers for translation.
My poem is 'Progress' (also anthologised in Bill Sewell and Lauris Edmond's Essential New Zealand Poems (Godwit/Random House, 2001)) is included.
Notes for the Translators was collected and edited by Christopher (Kit) Kelen of the University of Macao, China. It also features other leading New Zealand and Australian poets like Les A Murray, John Kinsella, David Eggleton, James Norcliffe, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Michael O'Leary and Niel Wright.
My new collection of poetry, Old Hat, a book of triolets, has just been published by my company HeadworX Publishers.