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HeadworX releases cult 1980s NZ cricket novel

My publishing company HeadworX has just released a new edition of Michael O'Leary's cult cricket novel, Out of It, a satirical and comic novel, also a celebration of the 1980s beige New Zealand team.

The novel is a surreal one-day match between New Zealand (Hadlee, Coney, Cowe et al) and an invitation world Out of It XI (featuring Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce...).

See the book information page here for more details.

 

 

Mark Pirie's new book Thinking Cap published

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

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

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