\nin Starry Night<\/em> reproductions
\nwhich hang, like crucifixes,
\nin varsity bed-sits,
\npetit bourgeois<\/em> do-ups
\nand nouveau riche<\/em> villas
\nacross Aotearoa.<\/p>\n
In such replicas, he\u2019s reborn,
\npicks up his paintbrushes
\nand begins to set the All Blacks:
\nMcCaw, Howlett, So\u2019oialo,
\nupon the terra firma of his canvas
\nas if they\u2019re men at work, harvesting.<\/p>\n
Then, he finds his Arles in Akaroa, Soon, forgetting sunflowers, Finally, like Rangi and Papa, (c) Siobhan Harvey<\/p>\n Reproduced here with the permission of the poet.<\/p>\n \u2014<\/p>\n Fine poems should be read and heard more than once, so I\u2019m continuing with my series of relooking at poets who have had multiple poems featured here on \u201c\u2026Anything, Really\u201d<\/em> since I joined the Tuesday Poem community in June 2010. Siobhan Harvey’s Van Gogh In Aotearoa<\/em> featured here on October 26, 2010 and I am very pleased to be able to refeature it here today—and to have two more wonderful poems from Siobhan forthcoming over the next two weeks.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Van Gogh in Aotearoa The spirit is alive in Starry Night reproductions which hang, like crucifixes, in varsity bed-sits, petit bourgeois do-ups and nouveau riche villas across Aotearoa. In such replicas, he\u2019s reborn, picks up his paintbrushes and begins to set the All Blacks: McCaw, Howlett, So\u2019oialo, upon the terra firma of his canvas as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27156,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151\/revisions\/27156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwhere Port Louis-Philippe\u2019s spectre
\nbesets him with visions,
\nsmall prophecies, of fresh work:
\nLandscape under a Summer Sky,
\nThe Rue Jolie Bridge at Akaroa,
\nThree White Cottages in Rue Balguerie.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nhe forms a fresh muse
\nfrom the soleil<\/em>-radiance
\nof kaka-beak and kowhai.<\/p>\n
\nhe brings land and sky together
\nin a blue-black darkness
\nabove the Desert Road
\nwhere stars are birthed so crisply
\nthey stand in place of him
\nand speak of things long dead.<\/p>\n![\"SiobhanHarvey2012\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SiobhanHarvey2012-118x150.jpg\")
<\/a>Siobhan Harvey is the author of, Cloudboy<\/em> (Otago University Press, 2014), which was winner of New Zealand’s richest prize for poetry, the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry.\u00a0Also recently released,\u00a0with Harvey as co-editor, is\u00a0Essential New Zealand Poems<\/em> (Penguin Random House NZ). Her other awards include\u00a0runner up in the 2014 New Zealand Poetry Society’s International Poetry Competition,\u00a0runner up in 2012 Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize (Aus) and\u00a0runner up in 2012 Kevin Ireland Poetry Competition. Her work has recently been published in Books Unbound<\/em>, Evergreen Review<\/em>, Pilgrimage<\/em> (Colorado State University Press), Segue<\/em> (Miami University Press), Stand<\/em> (UK), Structo<\/em> (UK) and the New Zealand Poetry Society 2014 anthology, Taking Back the Sky<\/em>. Her creative nonfiction has been published in magazines in New Zealand and America, and\u00a0is a finalist in the 2014 Landfall Essay Prize, as well as being Highly Commended in 2013 Landfall Essay Prize, and runner-up in 2011 Landfall Essay Prize.\u00a0Between 2006 and 2013, Harvey co-ordinated New Zealand’s National Poetry Day. She lectures in Creative Writing at AUT’S Centre for Creative Writing, and\u00a0has a Poet’s Page\u00a0on The Poetry Archive (UK), here: Siobhan Harvey<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"TuesPoem\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TuesPoem.jpg\")
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