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broadsheet 17 features Michael Duffett (USA)

Posted Wednesday, August 3, 2016 by Mark Pirie
Archived as broadsheet: new new zealand poetry, Michael Duffett

The latest issue of my journal broadsheet, no.17, May 2016, features the American-based professor Michael Duffett.

The issue is the first journal to feature his poetry in New Zealand.

Duffett has previously appeared in the Listener (NZ) in 1979 during a visit to the country to give a lecture on the prose of Graham Greene.

Others included are: Richard Berengarten (UK), Gary Mutton, Richard Reeve, Vaughan Rapatahana, Jeremy Roberts, Cameron La Follette (USA), Bill Direen, Jeanne Bernhardt, Basim Furat (Sudan), David P Reiter (Australia), Noeline Gannaway, Michael O'Leary and Anthony Rudolf (UK).

Here's the link:
http://broadsheetnz.wordpress.com

ESAW Christmas Surprise 2015 released

Posted Saturday, December 12, 2015 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, HeadworX Publishers, Poetry Archive of New Zealand Aotearoa

The latest ESAW Christmas Surprise 2015 has been released by Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, in conjunction with my press HeadworX and the Poetry Archive of NZ Aotearoa (PANZA).

The booklet includes some of my poems along with works by Michael O'Leary, B. E. Turner and F. W. Nielsen Wright.

A small token of appreciation for our friends and clients at Christmas time.

Click on the link to view the free ebook and download it:
/books/esaw-christmas-surprise-2015

HeadworX releases new books by Michael O'Leary and MaryJane Thomson

Posted Saturday, November 7, 2015 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Michael O'Leary, HeadworX Publishers, MaryJane Thomson

In October and November, my publishing company HeadworX released two new poetry books by Michael O'Leary, of Paekakariki, and MaryJane Thomson, of Wellington.

O'Leary’s book is a fine collection of his railway poems that I put together in honour of his 65th birthday. O'Leary did not seek this publication, and it is a special book celebrating a significant writer's contribution to New Zealand poetry in English. The cover features an old photograph from the Turnbull Library by W W Stewart.

Thomson’s book, Lonely Earth, is the second collection by her and shows a major development in her poetic since her first collection Fallen Grace. It's a diverse, edgy read and features a mix of styles from minimalist two-line poems to longer poems. Topical and current, it deals with issues like care of the environment and humanity's history, particularly its wars and consumerism.

I’m very pleased to be publishing both of these titles by two gifted New Zealand poets.

For more details on each book, please visit the HeadworX website:

Main Trunk Lines: Collected Railway Poems by Michael O'Leary

http://headworx.eyesis.co.nz/poetry/maintrunklines

Lonely Earth by MaryJane Thomson

http://headworx.eyesis.co.nz/poetry/lonelyearth

 

broadsheet 16 features Stephen Oliver

Posted Saturday, November 7, 2015 by Mark Pirie
Archived as broadsheet: new new zealand poetry, stephen oliver

The latest issue of my journal broadsheet, no.16, November 2015, features the major Australasian poet Stephen Oliver.

The issue celebrates his significant contribution to transtasman poetry and features some of his published and unpublished work.

Others included are: Pavel Arsenev (Russia), Roger Hickin, Peter Olds, Bob Orr, Alistair Paterson, Patricia Prime, Mark Pirie, Nicholas Reid, Laura Solomon, Nicole Sprague (USA), Michael Steven, Bill Sutton, and MaryJane Thomson.

Here's the link:
http://broadsheetnz.wordpress.com

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