{"id":30923,"date":"2016-01-05T06:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T17:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=30923"},"modified":"2016-01-04T22:20:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T09:20:06","slug":"the-most-read-tuesday-poem-posts-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/the-most-read-tuesday-poem-posts-of-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most-Read “Tuesday Poem” Posts Of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I featured the 10 “Most-Read” posts<\/a> of “…on Anything, Really”<\/em> from 2015, only one of which was a poem—Frankie McMillan’s \u201cat night my dead mother appears wanting soup\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 featuring at No. 8, overall.<\/p>\n

But for the past five years Tuesday has been poetry day, so I’ve decided to\u00a0 honour the Muses of poetry (Calliope, Erato, and Polyhymnia) with the 10 most-read poetry posts. You already know the first one from yesterday, but the others are:
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"NoHorsesCover\"<\/a>1. July 14 \u2014 \u201cat night my dead mother appears wanting soup\u201d by Frankie McMillan<\/a><\/h4>\n

at night my dead mother appears wanting soup<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I search the town for ox tails<\/em><\/span>
\n even the movie houses …
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"glass-rooster\"<\/a>2. June 30\u00a0 \u2014 “Neutrinos” by Janis Freegard<\/a><\/h4>\n

“Millions of elementary particles race though the glass rooster\u2019s<\/em>
\ntransparent body, from the sun, from the sun. Tau neutrinos,<\/em>
\nelectron neutrinos, muon neutrinos …”
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/em> <\/span>
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"menbrieflyexplainedcover\"<\/a>3. March 3 — “Angela Carter” by Tim Jones<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“And then your portrait on the back<\/em><\/span>
\nso neutral and complete<\/em><\/span>
\nstanding full-length …”
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

4. September 15 — “Castle Rock” by Helen Lowe<\/a><\/h4>\n

“Rotating in mid-air,<\/em><\/span>
\n suspended between blue above,<\/em><\/span>
\n bleached tussock below …”
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Aspiring<\/a>5. April 21 — “The quiet life at Glenfinnan: 1877, Runs 458\/ 468 ” by Robynanne Milford<\/a><\/h4>\n

\u201cBy the East Matukituki in a shieling picket fenced with currants<\/em><\/span>
\n gooseberries, oats and ducks, Mrs MacPherson, her heirlings, and<\/em><\/span>
\n Forty walls of deadfall water incessant cascade drowning<\/strong> …”
\n.<\/span>
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Push\"<\/a>6. February 10 — “Breathing You In” by David Gregory<\/a><\/h4>\n

“From up here it looked<\/em><\/span>
\nas if the harbour\u2019s lungs inhaled<\/em><\/span>
\nthe fog in through the headlands;<\/em><\/span>
\n…”
\n.<\/span>
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Nautilus\"<\/a>7. May 5 — “Garden peas (Mendel\u2019s Law, 1866)” by Helen Bascand, 1929 – 2015<\/a><\/h4>\n
'To come across an uncut fold in a new book\r\n.....<\/span>is not extraordinary. The reader <\/em>simply\r\n.....<\/span>splits open the pages.'*<\/em><\/span><\/pre>\n
\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span>Gregor Mendel<\/span>
\n \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span>in the orangery<\/span>
\n \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span>splits the pods of peas …”
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
8. January 20 — “Heat” by Helen Lowe<\/a><\/h4>\n
“Birds wheel, raucous<\/em><\/span>
\non the cool air<\/em><\/span>
\nthat will shortly burn away…”
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\"Firefly,<\/a>9. July 28 — “Wind” by Eileen Moeller<\/a><\/h4>\n
“It is snow blood<\/em><\/span>
\n coursing through<\/em><\/span>
\n the roots of light …”
\n.<\/span>
\n.<\/span>
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\"Flap,<\/a>10. May 12 — The Minotaur to Theseus<\/strong><\/em> by Catherine Fitchett<\/a><\/h4>\n
“Never trust a woman.<\/em><\/span>
\nYou don\u2019t need her magic<\/em><\/span>
\nball of thread. She wants it to entangle you …”
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
.<\/span><\/p>\n
So there you have it, the 10 “most-read” poems from 2015. Needless to say, I was very glad to have a couple of mine feature in such good company.<\/p>\n
I think, looking ahead, that for now I shall continue to keep Tuesday as my poetry day, although without the Tuesday Poem Hub as an anchor I may have to cast around for a favorable wind or pilot star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday I featured the 10 “Most-Read” posts of “…on Anything, Really” from 2015, only one of which was a poem—Frankie McMillan’s \u201cat night my dead mother appears wanting soup\u201d\u00a0 featuring at No. 8, overall. But for the past five years Tuesday has been poetry day, so I’ve decided to\u00a0 honour the Muses of poetry (Calliope, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bestof-on-anythingreally","category-most-read-posts","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923","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=30923"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30936,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923\/revisions\/30936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}