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broadsheet 27 features Richard Berengarten (UK)

Posted Friday, April 30, 2021 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Richard Berengarten, broadsheet: new new zealand poetry

The latest issue of my journal broadsheet, no.27, May 2021, features the UK poet Richard Berengarten, a widely published and award-winning writer.

The issue prints a selection of his prose poems from a work in progress.

I have published Berengarten’s poetry for many years in journals and have known him since 2005 when I was editing/publishing JAAM magazine. Back then he was known by his former name of Richard Burns.

Others included were: Michael Duffett 1943-2019 (USA), Basim Furat, John Gallas, Alex Jeune, Margaret Jeune, Michael O’Leary, Vivienne Plumb, Harry Ricketts, Marion Rego, Anthony Rudolf (UK), Madeleine Slavick, Bill Sutton and F W N (Niel) Wright.

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

Mark Pirie featured in Flapper Press Poetry Cafe USA

Posted Saturday, April 10, 2021 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Poetry by Mark Pirie, Annie Newcomer, Flapper Press Poetry Cafe

In early 2021, four of my poems and a mini interview was featured in the Flapper Press online Poetry Café.

The article was contributed by the North American poet Annie Newcomer, of Kansas, by invitation.

It was nice to receive the coverage for my poetry in America.

Here is the link:

Flapper Press Poetry Cafe: Mark Pirie

HeadworX publishes Margaret Jeune’s Selected Poems

Posted Saturday, April 10, 2021 by Mark Pirie
Archived as HeadworX Publishers, Margaret Jeune

In March 2021, my publishing company HeadworX released the Selected Poems of Margaret Jeune in hardback.

I personally edited/compiled the book, some 270 pages, from Margaret's previously published collections with HeadworX along with 51 uncollected poems from the pages of Tony Chad's poetry magazine Valley Micropress along with a section of new and uncollected poems. The book is the first to present Jeune's work in chronological order from 1968-2020.

I am very pleased to include this title in the HeadworX New Poetry Series.

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

Selected Poems by Margaret Jeune

https://headworx.co.nz/poetry/selected

ESAW Publishes Mark Pirie’s Sevens rugby poem collection

Posted Saturday, April 10, 2021 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Poetry by Mark Pirie, Rugby poetry

Delayed from December 2020, my latest collection of rugby poems, Sevens, was published by Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop in March 2021.

It presents 7 new poems written since the publication of Sidelights in 2017. Included is a sequence of poems ‘Three All Black Greats’ in honour of several of New Zealand’s finest rugby players: Christian Cullen, Julian Savea and Jerome Kaino.

An addenda features seven other rugby related poems I have recently been sent or have published as an editor/publisher. Poets included are Tony Beyer, Margaret Jeune, Jane Matheson, Bill Sutton and C A J Williams.

The book constitutes a seven-a-side game, two halves of seven poems each or two sides made up of seven poems each.

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