{"id":5551,"date":"2011-05-23T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T22:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2011-05-23T11:20:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T23:20:50","slug":"what-im-reading-broadsheet-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/05\/23\/what-im-reading-broadsheet-7\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Reading: “broadsheet 7”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I mentioned<\/a> that I had received my contributor’s copies of broadsheet 7: new new zealand poetry<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>(The Night Press) edited by Mark Pirie. broadsheet <\/strong><\/em>is\u00a0 a\u00a0 by-invitation publication and\u00a0 I was pleased to be able to contribute Starman<\/strong><\/em> and also Penelope Dreaming<\/strong><\/em> from the Ithaca Conversations<\/em> sequence. Since receiving broadsheet<\/strong><\/em>, I have also been enjoying the process of working through the journal, savouring the work of my fellow poets. Because I like to take poetry slowly, rather than galloping through, I haven’t finished yet. And because I always work through from beginning to tend, I haven’t yet reached the featured guest, Anthony Rudolf<\/strong> of the UK, or the other poets in the latter part of the journal.<\/p>\n

So, like Arnie in Terminator 2, I’ll be back … But for now I can say that I am very much enjoying broadsheet 7<\/strong><\/em> and there are both poems and lines within them that delight, from Emma Barnes<\/strong>‘ opening poem, Sacral:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

” … I play quartet notes. I play
\ncrotchets. The string wound
\naround me bodily. I am tied
\nin the bowing of a cello
\nin the crowing of a crowd.
\nThe crowning of your head
\nThe cawing of you crawling.
\nYou open your eyes and say:
\n“What magic is this?” …”<\/p>\n

to the magic realism of Basim Furat’s<\/strong> Students of Hondori <\/em><\/strong>(translated by Abdul Monem Nasser; edited by Mark Pirie):<\/p>\n

\u201c \u2026The cries of sellers there
\nawaken in me an adoration for an ancient land
\nwhere jewels are words, river water is sold in jars
\nand sea scent covers the stalls \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

and Sarahda Koirala’s<\/strong> delicate irony in Portrait<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201c \u2026 But after the photo you took a day off
\nbrightening the shadow on my face
\ncast by the open window
\nand air-brushing the hair from my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are just a small sample of the many fine poems on offer, but I hope they tempt you to dip into broadsheet 7<\/strong><\/em><\/a> for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I mentioned that I had received my contributor’s copies of broadsheet 7: new new zealand poetry (The Night Press) edited by Mark Pirie. broadsheet is\u00a0 a\u00a0 by-invitation publication and\u00a0 I was pleased to be able to contribute Starman and also Penelope Dreaming from the Ithaca Conversations sequence. Since receiving broadsheet, I have also been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-poetry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551","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=5551"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5566,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions\/5566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}