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A good and generous review of my cricket poetry anthology, A Tingling Catch, appeared in Cordite Poetry Review (20 February 2012) in Australia, an online review site for Australian and other miscellaneous books.
The review was written by the Australian poet Penelope Cottier, one of the Top 20 finalists for the 2011 Cricket Poetry Award.
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 good review of my anthology A Tingling Catch by Michael Morrissey appeared in the New Zealand magazine Investigate, April 2011.
I was delighted to find my anthology of cricket poetry, A Tingling Catch, mentioned in this month's April edition of The Wisden Cricketer (UK), 'the world's No.1 cricket magazine'.
A Tingling Catch is given a brief review alongside recent cricket books including Gideon Haigh's book on the 2010-11 Ashes Series in Australia.
The link for the magazine is: http://www.thecricketer.com/MAGAZINE.aspx