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Mark Pirie's edited edition of F W N Wright's Selected Post Alexandrian Poems released

In November, my edited selection of F W N (Niel) Wright's Selected Post Alexandrian Poems will be released by Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop.

I spent considerable time reading through the 4,000 poems Wright wrote in the final sixteen years of his life. The book is a representative selection of his later work, Post Alexandrian Poems, a coda or parallel to his epic poem, The Alexandrians.

Together this book and the earlier book of his selected poems, The Pop Artist's Garland, keep in print the best of his formalist poems and his ongoing variations on the English triolet.

The book will be available in hardback only from the Lulu indie bookstore.

 

The Night Press publishes Cameron La Follette's An Excerpt of Jewels

In November, The Night Press will publish a new collection of Cameron La Follette's poems. An Excerpt of Jewels is a collection of poems written in classic poetry form. La Follette hails from Salem, Oregon, and has a lifelong interest in researching and writing classic poetry.

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

La Follette's book is available online at Lulu bookstore: Shop the Indie Online Bookstore | Lulu

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

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

Mark Pirie releases new cricket book Poets XI with Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop

In October, I came up with an idea to compile a commemorative edition of the Poets XI at the Basin Longroom, Sunday 31 October 2010.

The Earl of Seacliff himself was the MC at the event and is also the publisher of the book Poets XI. I selected a team of poets on the day that had attended my launch of the book A Tingling Catch at the Basin.

Cricket historian and writer Don Neely launched the book.

Poets are: Nicola Easthope, Tim Jones, Harry Ricketts, Michael O'Leary, John Ansell, Nelson Wattie, Niel Wright, David McGill, Richard Langston, Don Neely and Mark Pirie the captain.

The cover photo is by Madeleine Slavick of Don Neely crossing the Basin.

An appendix offers some of the New Zealand literature XIs made by writers over the years. Poets XI is a unique piece of cricketing memorabilia.

The book will be available at Lulu.com bookstore.