The Tuesday Poem: I Am Guest Editor On the Hub, Featuring Robynanne Milford
Today I am the guest editor on The Tuesday Poem Hub, featuring The quiet life at Glenfinnan: 1877, Runs 458/ 468 by fellow Christchurch poet, Robynanne Milford.
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“By the East Matukituki in a shieling picket fenced with currants
gooseberries, oats and ducks, Mrs MacPherson, her heirlings, and
Forty walls of deadfall water incessant cascade drowning
lip-sound. Inside and out avalanching ice, thousand-foot roars
into cauldron scoured, reverberates unseen Duncan’s gone on
government work rumbles round and round…”
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To read the poem in full, click on:
The quiet life at Glenfinnan: 1877, Runs 458/ 468
You’ll also see that the poem is taken from Robynanne’s new collection, Aspiring Light (Pukeko Publications) that was launched last Sunday, 19 April. If you love poetry, social history, or the Wanaka region of Otago, I suspect it may be well worth your while seeking out.
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To read the other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, check out the blog roll in the Hub’s left hand sidebar once you’ve read The quiet life at Glenfinnan.
