{"id":31645,"date":"2016-03-08T06:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=31645"},"modified":"2016-03-07T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T10:56:11","slug":"tuesday-poetry-lines-from-leaving-the-red-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/03\/08\/tuesday-poetry-lines-from-leaving-the-red-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday & Poetry: Lines from “Leaving the Red Zone”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Leaving<\/a>Last week, I reported on the extraordinarily successful launch<\/a> of Leaving the Red Zone<\/em>, the poetry anthology (edited by James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston, and published by Clerestory Press) that commemorates the fifth anniversary of the February 22, 2011, earthquake that devastated my home city of Christchurch.<\/p>\n

The week since then has been frenetically busy so I haven’t had time to seek permission or obtain the text of full poems—or even, in fact, to take a proper look at the book. Even dipping into it, though, I see it is full of fabulous poems and so I am going to share some of the wonderful lines and stanzas with you today. I hope they will inspire you to read the book. I don’t think you’ll regret doing so.<\/p>\n

“It’s half-dark. The drunken lurching<\/em><\/span>
\n breaks and cracks and snatches all<\/em><\/span>
\n familiar ground — tears the possibilities<\/em><\/span>
\n of tomorrow into shreds.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ Helen Bascand, Out There
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

“An earthquake grew me up<\/span><\/em>
\n I unhappened<\/span><\/em>
\n was just a shoe size away from falling<\/span><\/em>
\n into fissures, being pulverized by wall fall”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

~ Robynanne Milford, My Name Is Aurelia
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

“Strange days when the crockery flies<\/em><\/span>
\nStrange days when the red bricks dance<\/em><\/span>
\nto an Orphic tune on xylophones like<\/em><\/span>
\na poltergeist has got into them.<\/em><\/span>
\nThen the sirens begin to scream.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ Andrew Paul Wood, The Big One<\/em>
\n.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

“Quiver and stamp.<\/em><\/span>
\nQuiver and stamp on<\/em><\/span>
\na blue day and you small,<\/em><\/span>
\nstraddled across the back<\/em><\/span>
\nof a big beast. And<\/em><\/span>
\nthat is how the earth is.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~Fiona Farrell, The Horse<\/em><\/p>\n

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