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broadsheet 30 features Tony Beyer

The latest issue of my journal broadsheet, no.30, November 2022, features the poet and editor Tony Beyer.

The issue includes a selection of his new poems.

I have published Tony’s poetry for many years, including two of his books through HeadworX, and it’s an honour to feature him and some of his friends in broadsheet.

Others included are: Peter Bland, Alistair Paterson, Piers Davies, Siobhan Harvey, Janet Charman, John Gallas (NZ/UK), Michael Harlow, Annie Klier Newcomer (USA), Vaughan Rapatahana, Ron Riddell, Tim Saunders, Jenny Powell, Gill Ward and Mark Young.

Link: http://broadsheetnz.wordpress.com

This will be the final issue of broadsheet that I have edited since 2008. I have decided to call it a day editing journals. I started off doing JAAM in 1995 and continued with broadsheet till 2022, a 27-year service to the New Zealand literary scene.

Thanks to all those who supported and subscribed to broadsheet. It was great to work with so many poets established and new over the years.

The archive remains online for future use.

Mark Pirie translated into Bosnian and Turkish

In 2024, I was translated into Bosnian and Turkish in the anthology, Close Encounters of the Poetic Kind: A Collection of Poetry by Poets from Australia and New Zealand eds. Vesna Suljić and Mehtap Őzer-Isović, University of Sarajevo, 2024.

It is an anthology of translations selected from the anthology Notes for the Translators that was published in 2012.

The poem of mine translated was 'Progress'.

It is an honour to be included in this University of Sarajevo project.

Mark Pirie publishes Tiebreaker: Tennis Poems

I am proud to announce that I have published a chapbook of tennis poems called Tiebreaker. The poems are written on famous players and the subject of tennis, including Wimbledon.

Players include Djokovic, Borg, Nadal, Kyrgios, and the Williams sisters.

There is also an addenda on Roger Federer by Bill Sutton, 1944-2025.

It is available at Lulu online bookstore.

 

 

Mark Pirie included in Catching the Light: A New Anthology of Cricket Poetry

This year a poem of mine 'Summer Days' was included in the new cricket anthology Catching the Light published by Fairfield Books in the UK, and edited by Nicholas Hogg and Tim Beard.

The book also includes about 10 poems from my anthology A Tinging Catch back in 2010, including Nelson Wattie, Nicola Easthope, James Brown, Nick Whittock, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Anne Louise Philpott, and Cyril Childs. 

It is good recognition for my work as a cricket poet and editor in England.

The book is available online at Amazon and at Fairfield Books:
Catching the Light - Fairfield Books