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Mark Pirie publishes Songs for Her, a book of love poems

Posted Saturday, March 19, 2022 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Poetry by Mark Pirie, The Night Press

In March I published an eBook of love poems written between December 2021 and February 2022. It is available as a free EP like Indie bands do at Lulu.com Bookstore.

The Night Press publishes Jeanne Bernhardt’s The Narrator

Posted Friday, July 30, 2021 by Mark Pirie
Archived as The Night Press, Jeanne Bernhardt

The Night Press, a division of HeadworX my publishing company, has just brought out a small printed edition of a stand-alone short story set in Northern America by Otago writer Jeanne Bernhardt. Bernhardt recently received the distinction of being published by Tangerine Press in the UK.

The Night Press publishes Margaret Jeune's Cat World

Posted Friday, April 30, 2021 by Mark Pirie
Archived as The Night Press, Margaret Jeune, Cats

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. 

broadsheet 24 features Nick Ascroft

Posted Wednesday, December 18, 2019 by Mark Pirie
Archived as broadsheet: new new zealand poetry, The Night Press, Nick Ascroft

The issue of my journal broadsheet, no.24, November 2019, features the Oamaru-born poet Nick Ascroft, of Wellington.

The issue gives a selection of Nick Ascroft's recent poetry. In the 1990s I was among the first editors to regularly publish his poetry.

It's a pleasure to feature a poet who has been at the forefront of his generation of poets in New Zealand since the mid-1990s and has recently achieved publication further afield in the United Kingdom.

Others included were: Richard Reeve, Corin Black (1975-2012), David Karena-Holmes, Blair Reeve, David Eggleton, Michael Duffett (1943-2019), Margaret Jeune, Eileen Van Trigt, C A J Williams, Laura Solomon (1974-2019), Kay McKenzie Cooke, Jenny Powell and myself.

Here's the link:
http://broadsheetnz.wordpress.com

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