It’s National Poetry Day — Here’s My Poetry Roundup!
Firstly, if you’re in NZ, visit the National Poetry Day 2015 website and check out their Calendar Of Events — with luck there’ll be something fun to join in, at a venue near you!
Secondly, poetry isn’t just a once-a-year one-off: it’s happening every week on The Tuesday Poem — and this week the featured poem is by exciting new voice, Annabel Hawkins:
What Heartbreak Felt Like
Well worth checking out if you have not done so already! And while you’re there on the Hub—do take a look at all the wonderful poems being posted by the poets in the Tuesday Poem community, which feature in the sidebar to the left of the main feature.
My own featured poem this week is Outback — and you can also find a selection of my poetry featured on my website:
Helen Lowe: Poetry
(Hover the mouse over “Other Writing: Poetry” to see the poems.)
And there are many wonderful poems, by an equal number of fabulous poets, featured under the Category Poetry in the right hand sidebar of the blog.
I also have two wonderful books of poetry on my reading table right now, both by fellow Tuesday Poets: expat New Zealander, Jennifer Compton’s This City, and Eileen Moeller’s recently arrived, Firefly, Brightly Burning.
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In terms of something uniquely “of New Zealand” to read from my poetry, it is hard to say because New Zealand infuses almost all of it… But you could try:
Christmastide
Ti
NZ Dredge
Something About Auckland
A Nor’West Season
Castle Rock
And now we are six—I think that will do for now! 😉