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The Night Press, a division of HeadworX my publishing company, has just brought out a small printed edition of cat poems by Margaret Jeune, Cat World. Written over many years, it conveys her personal experiences as a cat owner and carer.
The book contains some poems I omitted from her recent career-spanning, Selected Poems. Put together the poems form a neat sequence on the subject of cats.
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, 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.
The latest issue of my poetry journal broadsheet, no.14, November 2014, features the distinguished New Zealand poet Michael Harlow, who has recently read at world poetry festivals in Romania and Nicaragua. In 2014, Harlow published his selected poems Sweeping the Courtyard and a collection of love poems Heart absolutely I can.
The issue of broadsheet is the first journal to feature his prose poetry in New Zealand.
The prose poems are from a work in progress that Harlow is writing. Of these poems, Harlow writes: ‘they are best described as very short prose texts (rather like the French récit—I resist the “flash fiction” definition/category). Closest thing we have to it here is the prose-poem, and I’m happy with that. I like to think of the poème en prose, these texts as an example of the “prose that’s in poetry”—following on from the great Greek poet Seferis, who once remarked words to the effect that “I wish our poets would write poems with more of what our best prose writers have…” Or something like that. Thus far, I’ve only published a few of them in bilingual, translation form, English and Spanish, in overseas journals.’
Others included are: Michael Duffett (USA/UK), award-winning poet Brian Turner, P V Reeves, Laura Solomon, MaryJane Thomson, Nicholas Reid, Edward Sakowski (translated from the Polish by Robert Zuch), Riemke Ensing, Noeline Gannaway, Cameron La Follette (USA), Brentley Frazer (Australia), Michael Walker, Pat White and Mark Young.
Here's the link:
http://broadsheetnz.wordpress.com