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Mark Pirie edits a posthumous book by Michael Duffett (USA)

Posted Friday, February 7, 2020 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Michael Duffett

February 2020 sees the release of a booklet of poems by the late Californian Professor and poet Michael Duffett (1943-2019). 

I put together the sequence, 20 Sonnets, from well over a hundred uncollected poems sent to me by the author as his poetry editor 2014-2019.

It is published in the relaunched ESAW Mini Series (No. 37).

I intend to preserve and keep in print the best of Michael Duffett's poetry. Duffett passed away in 2019 from a terminal illness. Further publication of his work may continue in archival form for research libraries and his readers. 

Here's the link to the publisher's blog:
https://michaeloleary.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/esaw-published-a-posthumous-book-of-sonnets-by-michael-duffett-usa/

Mark Pirie and Tim Jones publish Star Words

Posted Wednesday, December 18, 2019 by Mark Pirie
Archived as Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Tim Jones, Mark Pirie, Science Fiction and speculative poetry, Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand

In December, a new anthology of Science Fiction and speculative poetry, Star Words, compiled by Tim Jones and myself featured in the relaunched ESAW mini series.

We compiled the A6 booklet anthology from poems read on 30 October 2019 at the 10th anniversary reading for Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, winner of the Vogel Award for Best Collected Work 2009. Tim Jones and I co-edited Voyagers together. The event was held at Vic Books, Lambton Quay.

Contributors to Star Words include Janis Freegard, Tim Jones, Harvey Molloy, Vivienne Plumb, Nick Ascroft, Margaret Jeune, Tabatha Wood, Tony Hopkins,  Michael O’Leary and myself.

We have dedicated the booklet to the memory of  B. E. Turner, technical editor of the ESAW Mini Series, d. October 2019.

Here's the link to the publisher's blog:
https://michaeloleary.wordpress.com/2019/12/15/esaw-publishes-star-words-mini-book-anthology/

broadsheet 24 features Nick Ascroft

Posted Wednesday, December 18, 2019 by Mark Pirie
Archived as broadsheet: new new zealand poetry, The Night Press, Nick Ascroft

The issue of my journal broadsheet, no.24, November 2019, features the Oamaru-born poet Nick Ascroft, of Wellington.

The issue gives a selection of Nick Ascroft's recent poetry. In the 1990s I was among the first editors to regularly publish his poetry.

It's a pleasure to feature a poet who has been at the forefront of his generation of poets in New Zealand since the mid-1990s and has recently achieved publication further afield in the United Kingdom.

Others included were: Richard Reeve, Corin Black (1975-2012), David Karena-Holmes, Blair Reeve, David Eggleton, Michael Duffett (1943-2019), Margaret Jeune, Eileen Van Trigt, C A J Williams, Laura Solomon (1974-2019), Kay McKenzie Cooke, Jenny Powell and myself.

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

The Night Press publishes Margaret Jeune's children's poems

Posted Tuesday, July 16, 2019 by Mark Pirie
Archived as The Night Press, Margaret Jeune, Children's Poetry

The Night Press, a division of HeadworX my publishing company, has just brought out a handsome edition of children's poems by Margaret Jeune. It is published under her maiden name Margaret Webb, the name she wrote her poems under in The Evening Post Children's page 1968-1970 (aged 12 to 14 years old).

The title, My Sketchbook, is a neat edition to my Night Press series, which features chapbook sized collections of poetry. 

 

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