Poetry News
I received some nice poetry news just before Christmas, which helped counteract the “sweet sorrow” of The Tuesday Poem closing its doors.
Several of my poems have been accepted for an anthology of earthquake poetry that is being put together by Christchurch poets and editors, James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston. It’s not certain that the project will get backing yet, but I hope it does. Not just because I will have poems in it, but because five years on from the Christchurch earthquakes it feels timely to have such a book. I very much look forward to seeing how different poets address the experience of those days–and feel sure that the ways will be as many and diverse as the poets.
It is also the first poetry submission I have made for some years, so the acceptances were very nice for that reason alone.
This will be us, one day —
faded photographs
for archivists to pore
over …*
*Not from one of the selected poems.
