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An interesting review of my latest poetry book, Old Hat: A Book of Triolets, appeared in Landfall Online Review.
The reviewer Lynley Edmeades gives an objective and informed view of what I was attempting with the triolet form in Old Hat.
Here's the link:
http://landfallreviewonline.blogspot.com/2013/10/he-wrote-list-of-what-hed-lost.html
I will appear in the forthcoming anthology, Notes for the Translators: Poems from 142 New Zealand and Australian Poets.
The book is intended to be offered to Chinese mainstream publishers for translation.
My poem is 'Progress' (also anthologised in Bill Sewell and Lauris Edmond's Essential New Zealand Poems (Godwit/Random House, 2001)) is included.
Notes for the Translators was collected and edited by Christopher (Kit) Kelen of the University of Macao, China. It also features other leading New Zealand and Australian poets like Les A Murray, John Kinsella, David Eggleton, James Norcliffe, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Michael O'Leary and Niel Wright.
My new collection of poetry, Old Hat, a book of triolets, has just been published by my company HeadworX Publishers.
In April 2012, the New Zealand Cricket Museum's new touch screen interactive sound display opened at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.
Four of my cricket poems and two photos of me have been included in the display.
A full report I wrote on the interactive appears on Beattie's Book Blog.
You can read the story online at:
http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/basins-amazing-new-jukebox.html
The interactive is an amazing project to have been involved in. An historic and innovative display in relation to cricket museums worldwide.
My thanks go to the hard work of the museum's director David Mealing.