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Mark Pirie's new book Thinking Cap published

Posted Tuesday, November 1, 2011 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Poetry by Mark Pirie, Thinking Cap

My new collection of poetry, Thinking Cap, a book of epigrams, has just been published by Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop.

Mark Pirie's poem for All Black Piri Weepu

Posted Sunday, October 23, 2011 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Piri Weepu, All Blacks, Rugby World Cup 2011

Congratulations to the All Blacks for lifting the Rugby World Cup 2011.

My poem tribute for All Black Piri Weepu appeared in The Dominion Post Arts & Entertainment supplement, 20 October 2011.

Poetry by Mark Pirie in the NZ Cricket Museum Newsletter

Posted Friday, July 29, 2011 by Mark Pirie
Archived as A Tingling Catch, Cricket poetry, New Zealand Cricket Museum Newsletter, The Second Test

The latest edition of the NZ Cricket Museum Newsletter, Winter/Spring 2011, includes a series of poems from my recent anthology A Tingling Catch, including three of my own, further information about the museum's touch-screen interactive project and a prose piece by Madeleine Marie Slavick on Jonny Brugh's one-man play The Second Test (also included on the Tingling Catch blog).

You can download the newsletter as a free PDF from New Zealand Cricket's website.

The poems from A Tingling Catch were 'The Record' and 'To Bert Sutcliffe, Master Batsman' (my own poems), 'Ken Wadsworth' by Brian Turner, 'Poet & Cricketer' by Ron Riddell (for the late David Mitchell) and 'A Tribute to R J Hadlee' by Ian Donnelly.

A further poem of mine, 'At the Basin' for Daniel Vettori, first published by Joseph Romanos in The Wellingtonian, was also included.

Thanks to David Mealing at the New Zealand Cricket Museum for his work on this as well as the exciting new touch-screen interactive initiative.

The New Zealand Cricket Museum now has a new website: www.nzcmuseum.co.nz

A Tingling Catch reviewed in Investigate

Posted Friday, July 29, 2011 by Mark Pirie
Archived as A Tingling Catch, Cricket poetry, Investigate

A good review of my anthology A Tingling Catch by Michael Morrissey appeared in the New Zealand magazine Investigate, April 2011.

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