Sometimes …
… You post stuff and then find a link to it somewhere else, on a site you didn’t even know about until then …
Well, that’s what happened to me today when I found a link to my Tuesday Poem post of Tim Jones’ “The First Artist on Mars” on Marooned—Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books On Mars. Which I thought was kinda cool … and Tim’s poem entirely deserving of the notice!
To find out more about Tim Jones, you can visit his website here. To discover his Mars sequence “Red Stone” you’ll have to read his collection, All Blacks’ Kitchen Gardens—or check out Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand (Interactive Publications, 2009; ed. Tim Jones & Mark Pirie), which contains at least one other Mars poem from Tim and lots of other wonderful science fiction poetry on a wide range of subjects.
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I’ve also been preparing for the last of my NZ Poetry Month interviews for Women on Air, this time with Bernadette Hall, who is one of NZ’s most celebrated contemporary poets and whose most recent collection The Lustre Jug (VUP) is a finalist in this year’s NZ Post National Book Award for Poetry. I loved the collection when it came out last year and am thrilled it’s up for the big award—but Bernadette is such a warm, wise person and so easy to talk to that really I am just looking forward to having another conversation with her on air.
And if you’d like to get a feel for The Lustre Jug and Bernadette’s poetry, you can read these poems online:
Leda at the Billabong (Best NZ Poems 2008)
The Fox (Best NZ Poems 2009)
And tomorrow—being National Poetry Day—we’ll be featuring the title poem from Bernadette’s collection, The Lustre Jug, on the Tuesday Poem blog, together with poems from each of the other finalists.
Thanks, Helen – both for the original post, and for this followup! I was really pleased to “Make it to Mars”. An earlier Tuesday Poem of mine, Shostakovich in America, is going to be republished in an international journal devoted to Shostakovich after being noticed by its editor. In both cases, I wouldn’t be surprised if Google Alerts had played a part.