{"id":5768,"date":"2011-05-29T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T18:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2011-05-28T19:27:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T07:27:48","slug":"just-arrived-two-poetry-collections-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/05\/29\/just-arrived-two-poetry-collections-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Arrived: Two Poetry Collections & A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week has been a little bit of a poetry week. Being part of the international Tuesday Poem Blog<\/a>, I always have my Tuesday Poem<\/a>, but on Monday<\/a> I was reading broadsheet 7: new new zealand poetry<\/strong><\/em>, while on Thursday<\/a> I featured poet Nancy Mattson<\/strong>, who has just had four poems published in Cardinal Points Literary Journal<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps not surprisingly under the circumstances, I also have two new poetry collections on my “Just Arrived” table. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The first, which is genuinely new out, is Barbara Strang’s<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The second, My Iron Spine<\/strong><\/em>, (Headworx 2008<\/a>) is the second collection of poetry from my fellow Tuesday poet, Helen Rickerby<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 As those of you who follow “… Anything, Really”<\/em><\/strong>—and the poetry side in particular—will know, I am a great admirer of Helen’s poetry so somewhat embarrassed that it has taken me this long to get a copy onto the “Just Arrived”<\/a> table.<\/p>\n

But far better late than never and I am very much looking forward to reading both collections and sharing at least one favourite from each as a future Tuesday Poem selection—with the agreement of the poet, of course!<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And as those of you who follow “… Anything, Really”<\/em><\/strong>—and the SFF side in particular \ud83d\ude09 —may<\/em> have picked up, as a non-attending member of Renovation<\/strong><\/a> (the World Science Fiction Convention 2011) I am also planning on reading and blogging on the Hugo Award nominees<\/a> again this year. (You may recall that last year I posted a series on the HarperVoyager US blog<\/a>, starting with The Hugo Awards: the Reading Has Begun.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

On May 16<\/a> I was lucky enough to have NK Jemisin\u2019s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms <\/strong><\/em>and Mira Grant\u2019s Feed<\/strong><\/em> , both of which are Hugo Award 2011 finalists for Best Novel, arrive on my To Be Read (TBR) table—and today it was Connie Willis’s Blackout<\/strong><\/em>, also a Best Novel finalist.<\/p>\n

I will give you a little advance warning of when the Hugo post series will begin—likely in early July—but I will also post reports on each of the novels here as I complete them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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