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The Night Press publishes Michael O'Leary's 10 Poems on Music

Posted Thursday, October 8, 2026 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Michael O'Leary, The Night Press

In October, The Night Press published a new collection of Michael O'Leary's poems on music. Ten Poems on Music is the first time his music poems have been collected in a single book. Here are poems on David Bowie, U2, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and The Beatles members: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison.

It's published as part of a continuing series of chapbooks by The Night Press that includes Alex Jeune, Mark Pirie, Jeanne Bernhardt, Margaret Jeune, Niel Wright, Ivy Gibbs and MaryJane Thomson.

O'Leary's book is available online at lulu bookstore: Shop the Indie Online Bookstore | Lulu

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.

Mark Pirie releases Songs for Her in new print edition

Posted Wednesday, September 9, 2026 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Poetry by Mark Pirie, The Night Press

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

In September, I decided to make the book available in print as well. The new edition can now be bought from Lulu.com Bookstore.

The Night Press publishes Margaret Jeune's The Monk's Chair

Posted Friday, September 4, 2026 by Mark Pirie
Archived as The Night Press, Margaret Jeune

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

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