The Most-Read Posts of “…On Anything Really” from 2013: “In Memory Of Sarah Broom, 1972 – 2013”
On April 23, I posted a memorian to Sarah Broom, a poet whom I esteemed greatly.
The obituary, I feel, speaks for itself, and I hope that you will take a moment to re-read it and commemorate Sarah by clicking on the link following the short intro:
“It is with great sadness that I record the death of New Zealand poet, Sarah Broom, who died last Thursday, 18 April, after a prelonged illness with lung cancer.
My first encounter with Sarah was through her poetry, when I read and loved her first collection, Tigers at Awhitu (Auckland Universty Press, NZ; Carcanet, UK) in 2010. …”
You can read the full post here:
Tuesday Poem: In Memory of Sarah Broom, 1972-2013
I was also editor for the Tuesday Poem Hub on December 17 and featured Sarah’s poem, “One story and the other” , from her posthumous collection, Gleam (Auckland University Press, 2013.)
I love the poem and would also love it if you would take a moment to go and read that, too, if you have not already done so: