tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882741212269630862024-03-06T04:29:47.474+13:00O Audacious BookUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger581125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-81705995610264197222015-01-26T23:49:00.000+13:002015-01-27T05:56:32.251+13:00Tuesday Poem: The Arrival of the Bee Box by Sylvia Plath<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">I ordered this, clean wood box </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Square as a chair and almost too heavy to lift. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">I would say it was the coffin of a midget </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Or a square baby </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Were there not such a din in it. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">The box is locked, it is dangerous. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">I have to live with it overnight </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">And I can't keep away from it. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">There are no windows, so I can't see what is in there. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">There is only a little grid, no exit. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">I put my eye to the grid. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">It is dark, dark, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">With the swarmy feeling of African hands </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Minute and shrunk for export, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Black on black, angrily clambering. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">How can I let them out? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">It is the noise that appals me most of all, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">The unintelligible syllables. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">It is like a Roman mob, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Small, taken one by one, but my god, together! </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">I lay my ear to furious Latin. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">I am not a Caesar. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">I have simply ordered a box of maniacs. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">They can be sent back. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">They can die, I need feed them nothing, I am the owner. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">I wonder how hungry they are. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">I wonder if they would forget me </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">If I just undid the locks and stood back and turned into a tree. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">There is the laburnum, its blond colonnades, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">And the petticoats of the cherry. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">They might ignore me immediately </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">In my moon suit and funeral veil. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">I am no source of honey </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">So why should they turn on me? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3b3b; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">The box is only temporary.</span><br />
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I don't keep bees but I know people who do. They love them, are mesmerised by them. And Sylvia? Bees are a box of 'maniacs' – something to control – like the buzzing in one's brain. A great write up here: http://engzone.weebly.com/the-arrival-of-the-bee-box.html<br />
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Afterwards go to the <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/2015/01/matthew-1128-30-by-hamish-petersen.html">Tuesday Poem hub page</a>: to find another wonderful poem: this one by young Canterbury poet Hamish Petersen, selected by Andrew Bell.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-78682091829172544292014-12-07T08:55:00.001+13:002014-12-07T09:00:24.184+13:00The Art of Fiction and the wonderful James Baldwin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Herewith, I offer you one of my favourite short stories of all time. Such writing about the human spirit and about music, about families and race in America ... about love. And the ending! Meet the fiction of the fabulous James Baldwin in his story Sonny's Blues. Worth every second of your time.<br />
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<a href="http://swcta.net/moore/files/2012/02/sonnysblues.pdf"><span style="font-size: large;">Read, here. </span></a><br />
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And here ... <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2994/the-art-of-fiction-no-78-james-baldwin">an interview with James Baldwin in the Paris Review</a>. He lived in Paris for a number of years and wrote his seminal novel <i>Go Tell it On the Mountain</i> there.<br />
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Finally, a blogpost at <i>Off the Shelf </i>explores the 'something' about James Baldwin ...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">In 1948, James Baldwin left New York and travelled to Paris. He didn’t speak French and arrived with forty dollars to his name. He was twenty-four years old. But being broke or not speaking the native language was of no consequence. In fact, Baldwin was relieved. He needed to leave America. - </span> </span><a href="http://offtheshelf.com/2014/12/theres-something-about-this-man-they-call-james-baldwin/?cp_type=OfftheShelf&rmid=OFF_THE_SHELF&rrid=6818744">more</a>...</blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-6540496527496997022014-11-18T07:09:00.000+13:002014-12-07T08:38:09.321+13:00Tuesday Poem: Hush<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US">or china cup, </span>is a mouse<br />
curled up asleep in the bread.<br />
Hush, or it will waken and<br />
I'll have to do something.</div>
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The dilemma of a mouse in the house. <i>Note poem revised since first posted.</i></div>
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And today at the <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/2014/11/outpost-by-lindsay-pope.html">Tuesday Poem hub</a>, you can find more mice in a poem by Lindsay Pope – but his narrator is a little less circumspect in dealing with his mouse problem. Lindsay's book <i>Headwinds</i> I published under our <a href="http://www.makaropress.co.nz/submarine-books/headwinds/">Mākaro Press Submarine imprint.</a> It's a marvellous collection and it's great to see Lindsay on TP, thanks to editor Keith Westwater.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-68899362845671371642014-11-16T07:38:00.001+13:002014-11-16T07:38:18.806+13:00I say to horror, 'What do you look like under your hockey mask, your bloodstained cocktail frock?' Elizabeth Knox<div class="tr_bq">
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For instance, I say to horror, 'What do you look like under your hockey mask, your bloodstained cocktail frock? Show me your body. Your bones.' I walk into the house-of-horror-genre and melt away its grossly figured wallpaper, the shadow on the alcove of its stairs, its dirty glass, its shuttered windows. I melt away the walls themselves until what is left is the frame, a stark figure around an empty volume, and then I call into it my own storms; outer, other darknesses; the real things in life that aren't reconcilable with living rationally, happily and confidently. Such as what illness does to us – to our <i>selves </i>– before we die. And how, even with all the organisation and energy, and goodwill in the world, there is only so much effective help we can offer one another. And in the end how careless a world bursting with causes is with all those devoted to the long cause of care... </blockquote>
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Elizabeth Knox read at the wonderful <a href="http://www.litcrawl.co.nz/">Litcrawl</a> in Wellington last night. People packed into venues around the a small area of the central city and heard poets and storytellers read their work, and then walked to the next event and the next. Yes, <i>packed</i>!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-27210796036369734292014-11-08T09:38:00.002+13:002014-11-08T20:24:30.568+13:00Renée and Anahera: writers must take responsibility!<br />
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Renée is a writer who lives up the Kapiti Coast about an hour and a half from me. She's in her eighties and has been a professional writer for the past 30 years after a lifetime of working in various jobs since leaving school aged 12, the daughter of a solo mother, and always trying to fit in her writing.<br />
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Yesterday she walked into a seminar I was attending as a writing mentor. The air changed, there is no doubt. It was something about her bearing, the way she took us all in: fearless, compassionate. She came to speak to us to encourage the writers there: all Māori writers, part of the Te Papa Tupu incubation programme (we writing mentors are there in support but get as much out the sessions). She came to speak to these writers who are trying to live their busy lives while fitting in time to write their novels and poetry and short stories – she was there to tell them it could be done – that there is always a way. </div>
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Even as the mother of young children, even as someone holding down a full-time job, even when life becomes overwhelming and pulls you in every direction except towards your desk, there is always a way. And discipline helps (she has it in spades), and humour and compassion and self-belief (those too). </div>
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"It's stories that make ideas live. And we're the ones who have to tell the stories."</div>
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Writers are readers first and foremost: "I was a huge reader, I vacuumed up the books in the library. When I stop reading it'll be because I've died … my hands have dropped from the keyboard ..."</div>
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Be disciplined. Yes, Renée writes every day to the clock. "I've always used a timer to write. If I hadn't had it I'd have forgotten to do things like check on the children ... when the timer went off I'd go and see what they were up to ... I had to catch the 8 o'clock train today, so I put the timer on. I still have it. "</div>
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Finally, she told us that she wrote her famous Depression era play <i>Wednesday to Come</i> in honour of her mother who died aged 42 from a broken heart – she had battled to bring up three children after their father committed suicide. What's more the play was written for a competition, and Renée wrote right up to the deadline. To occupy her children, still young then, she threw coins in the garden and told them to go looking for them and pull out the weeds while they were at it. The garden was weeded (and so were the flowers). The play was writ and continues to be a favourite. It was pivotal for me in the writing of <i>The Blue</i> set in 1938.</div>
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Renée finished speaking and then listened with interest to a young upcoming poet and fiction writer Anahera Gildea. Anahera hadn't so much walked into the room as exploded inside it: smiling and hugging everyone like they were old friends. Like Renée, she was a funny and charming speaker, and her insights echoed hers nicely, except that Anahera confessed she'd lacked the older writer's discipline. She said she'd struggled to write a novel until she found her own discipline by discovering how her creativity worked.<br />
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Anahera describes her process as working through from the place of te Po and te Ao Marama – a place of stillness and darkness to light. She sits for two hours every morning <i>thinking</i> about her novel, if she writes, fine, if not, that's fine too. This way she progresses<i> by working with herself not against herself, </i>and in three months wrote an astonishing 30,000 words towards the draft of her novel.</div>
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In other words (excuse the pun): better to write than not write, to get it down and then craft the thing into something, and yes – make the time <i>and the words will come. </i></div>
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Finally, Anahera echoed Renée: "Being a writer is more than just writing to a word count every day – it involves looking after your health, it involves balance, it involves battling addictions ...' Taking responsibility, in other words, for being a writer and telling the stories that need to be told. Something both these inspirational women do. Thank you for reminding the rest of us. </div>
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Renée's blog is at <a href="http://www.wednesdaybusk.com/">www.wednesdaybusk.com</a> where she is posting a novel-in-progress every Wednesday! And you can find one of Anahera's poems <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/2014/09/poroporoaki-to-lord-my-god-weaving-via.html">here on Tuesday Poem</a>.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-13644304815724588892014-08-26T00:00:00.000+12:002014-08-26T00:00:09.575+12:00Tuesday Poem: Missing Hat<div class="MsoNormal">
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Mary McCallum</div>
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Harriet Rowland would have been 21 today. The lively, gorgeous Wellington student passed away on 7 March this year.<br />
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We at <a href="http://www.makaropress.co.nz/">Mākaro Press </a>published the blogs she wrote over the nearly three years she lived with cancer – it's called <i><a href="http://www.thebookofhat.com/">The Book of Hat </a></i>and it's been a surprise hit: on bestseller lists, bought by students and grandparents, by bookclubs and classrooms, and runner-up in the Ashton Wylie award between Lloyd Geering and Joy Cowley. </div>
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So many people have responded to Harriet's vivid, upbeat and compassionate voice. It's been called 'the real <i>The Fault in Our Stars</i>' but it's more than that... there's something singularly Hattie about the book, that spills out in the reading, and doesn't leave you. Peter Jackson's called it, 'truthful, funny and wise'. All of that. Just – Hat. </div>
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And now it's going global! <i>The Book of Hat i</i>s an ebook -- launched today, something we've achieved working with <a href="http://rosamirabooks.com/books/">Rosa Mira Books</a> in Dunedin. And we're also off today on our third roadshow around Wellington secondary schools distributing Hat's book – donations from generous reader Bridget Percy, who reckoned every school should have a copy. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p>Do check out the Tuesday poem for <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/">a host of other poems. </a></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-48166615856438493212014-08-05T08:33:00.000+12:002014-08-06T07:45:19.295+12:00Tuesday Poem: It's got a leaf<div class="MsoNormal">
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pears for years <o:p></o:p></div>
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unaware they ripen <o:p></o:p></div>
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them in Europe, took us on <o:p></o:p></div>
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slice them one by one to eat. Winter Nelis – the<o:p></o:p></div>
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one Annie painted for me: a rich red wall behind<br />
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skin – the one Tom or Richard or Sandra <o:p></o:p></div>
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rushed over to her from the fruit shop<br />
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Such a winter poem! Enjoy (best enjoyed eating a pear). And do check out the <a href="http://www.tuesdaypoem.co.nz/">Tuesday Poem </a>at the hub – it's by best first book of poetry winner 2014, Marty Smith, and is stunning: Agnus Dei. There are stacks of other Tuesday Poems in the sidebar there too. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-70996803116565476112014-07-15T00:00:00.000+12:002014-07-15T07:52:28.424+12:00The feijoas are falling from the trees by Louise Wallace<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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The feijoas are falling from the trees –</div>
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a fresh bag-load every day.</div>
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Winter is on its way.</div>
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I am in the kitchen</div>
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shucking feijoas like oysters –</div>
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filling ice-cream containers to freeze.</div>
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<i>Won't it be nice to eat them in July?</i></div>
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Rory is a good man, who hates feijoas.</div>
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I see a strong gust outside</div>
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and I imagine the sound of a feijoa falling.</div>
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Crashing into branches on its way down,</div>
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waiting to be plucked</div>
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from the leaves and soil.</div>
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Winter is on its way.</div>
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I try to think of how I could earn</div>
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more money; work harder, get ahead.</div>
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There is never enough</div>
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and it would be nice to get ahead.</div>
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I write a list of all the things</div>
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I need to make –</div>
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stewed feijoas, feijoa crumble –</div>
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another gust; feijoa cake. </div>
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Louise says this poem is a clear favourite at readings she's given from her second collection <i>Enough</i> (VUP). It certainly scored high at a reading I was part of at Petone library recently. She was one of three 'young and hungry writers' appearing there – the others were Caolinn Hughes (VUP) and Stefanie Lash (one of my authors at Mākaro Press).<br />
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There's something about feijoas. I should know - I once posted a feijoa chutney recipe on this blog and it was a favourite post for months and months. This poem of Louise's nails the business of having a feijoa tree in your life: from the excess to all the recipes ... no chutney, however...<br />
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Louise's poems walk with light feet, but carry so much. She thinks they're not all that interesting, but she's wrong. There's something beguiling about them that I can't quite explain. It's the Jenny Bornholdt effect – an honesty and quickness and quirkiness – and always the sideways glance at the place where vulnerability lies.<br />
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I'm talking about Louise and <i>Enough </i>on National Radio this afternoon with Simon Mercep - 1.30 pm.<br />
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Posted here with the poet's permission. Do check out the Tuesday Poem hub and <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/another-exile-paints-spring-portrait-of.html">a wonderful poem by Riemke Ensing about KM</a>. A treat.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-90312626939895308792014-06-24T07:48:00.004+12:002014-06-24T07:48:55.084+12:00Tuesday Poem: Chemotherapy - it's on the hub!My poem 'Chemotherapy' - a tribute to the courage and constancy of <a href="http://www.thebookofhat.com/">The Book of Hat</a> author Harriet Rowland's mum Jan Kelly - is on the <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/2014/06/chemotherapy-by-mary-mccallum-and-in.html">Tuesday Poem hub this week</a> with a poem by Frankie McMillan. We've both just judged the <a href="http://nationalflash.wordpress.com/">National Flash Fiction Day NZ</a> competition and so we're paired up here by NFFD powerhouse Michelle Elvy. Very cool. Thanks Michelle!<br />
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The Book of Hat is published by <a href="http://www.makaropress.co.nz/">my Mākaro Press</a>. It is Harriet's story of living with terminal cancer based on her vivid, upbeat blog posts and has been a hit with young adult and adult readers around the country, and elsewhere. The <a href="http://rodneylibraries.blogspot.co.nz/2014/05/the-book-of-hat.html">Auckland Libraries blog</a> reviewer says:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"> The Book of Hat is the real The Fault in Our Stars</span><br />
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is uncertainty:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> What birds do we know?</i> the teacher says;<o:p></o:p></div>
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and how words and ideas flock<o:p></o:p></div>
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hungrily into Cloudboy’s mind.<o:p></o:p></div>
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and how he goes on, <i>In</i> Historia Animalium, <i>Aristotle said<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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is the mouth of a river:<o:p></o:p></div>
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and the liquid bubbling cry of it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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the call of a bittern, the cry of a tern … </div>
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is the unwillingness to give in:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> Moa, miss,</i> Cloudboy perseveres.</div>
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is cultural confusion:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> What's a Moa?</i> the teacher asks.</div>
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is an argument which can't be won:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> It lived long ago, Miss,</i> Cloudboy says, <i>like the dinosaurs;</i></div>
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<i> </i>and the teacher's reply,<i> Not dinosaurs! New Zealand birds!</i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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is an arm small as a wing:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> </i> how a girl raises her hand; </div>
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at the child's answer, <i>Blackbird, Miss. </i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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is an open window:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i> </i>how Cloudboy turns towards it, the freedom</div>
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beyond glass, the knowledge</div>
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of air, the gravity birds defy. </div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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___________________</div>
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A stunning poem from Siobhan Harvey's powerful new collection Cloudboy about her son who is diagnosed with autism. She writes from the point of view of Cloudmother. I review it on <a href="http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.co.nz/2014/06/cloudboy-by-siobhan-harvey-review-by.html">Beattie's bookblog.</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">.... the character of Cloudboy snuck up on me. With him came his abiding curiosity for how things work, his passion for finding out, his genius for understanding (his subjects: Nephology, Astronomy, Ornithology and goodness knows what else at the age many are learning to write their names) and his perceptive mother. And we see this wisp of a boy go to school, and watch aghast at the way school tries to make him more boy than cloud, and in so doing breaks the heart they don’t seem to know is there (‘such softness’) ....</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-indent: 0px;"><b><i>Siobhan's poem posted here with permission. </i></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-indent: 0px;"><b>Do check out <a href="http://www.tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/">Tuesday Poem hub</a> with a wonderful poem by Emma Neale. </b></span></div>
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The minim leap of dog</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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behind, and in front, the hemidemisemiquavers</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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of rabbit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oblivious, both. I think of Mary<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oliver and her unleashed dogs <o:p></o:p></div>
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calling<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘stay’ to Ben <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘run’ to the
raccoon. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On Pirinoa Road, we’re still<o:p></o:p></div>
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a strange kind of musical interlude <br />
with me the conductor. Now one – ah there – and now<o:p></o:p></div>
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the other. The grace of both. No need to say a thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Bow, my loves. </span></div>
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Mary McCallum<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mary Oliver's lovely book Dog Poems inspired this poem, written at a place of rabbits and one dog. </div>
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I am also the editor at the <a href="http://www.tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com/">Tuesday Poem hub this week </a>and have posted a wonderful poem by Helen Rickerby who is one of the first poets to be published as part of my new Hoopla series. Her book is <i>Cinema</i>. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-60852039148631745912014-04-01T06:18:00.001+13:002014-04-01T06:22:54.673+13:00Tuesday Poem: Happiness Bowls Pink and blue and <br />
lavender, poured glass bowls pinched <br />
to look like small boats brimming with water. <br />
Inside, incised: the letters and lines of a<br />
chemical formula. The white card says<br />
‘Happiness Bowls’.<br />
I wait for the woman <br />
to finish with the customer who’s asked for <br />
a piece of art small enough to carry in a <br />
pocket. As I wait, I decide she doesn’t love
<br />
her job. She wears her unhappiness like
<br />
a white card. The way
<br />
she chinks the keys <br />
for the cupboard that has glass pieces fit<br />
for a pocket, holds the cupboard door as if<br />
she wants to shut it on a hand. The customer<br />
looks and looks and shakes his head. He leaves,<br />
hand in his pocket. Please,<br />
I say, what is this
<br />
written in the Happiness Bowls? <i>Seratonin</i>, <br />
she says, but it sounds like <i>Sarah Tone</i>. <br />
She’s back at the table where she can <br />
watch people enter the shop. It’s the <br />
chemical equation, she says.<br />
Oh, I say. I didn’t know <br />
it was like that. I stare at the hexagon, the
<br />
pentagon, lines and letters, NH2–HO–HN, <br />
inside the pale, poured bowls. He’s done <br />
more serious work, she says, I’ll get it, and <br />
she walks up the stairs –<br />
brings down a bowl like <br />
the Happiness Bowls but this one needs two<br />
arms to hold it and it’s the colours of fire.<br />
Angular, brimming, but no equation this time. <br />
It looks primordial, like a wedge of something <br />
precious<br />
cut from a rock <br />
and polished. She places it in the natural light <br />
by the window and the colours lighten and <br />
redden, rise and fall, burn like a brazier. I am <br />
enthralled. She says the artist makes a wax <br />
shape and, from that, <br />
a mould, pours molten<br />
glass into it. He fires it, cools it, uses acid <br />
to make the outside opaque. Against artificial <br />
light, the red flares, she says. The word <br />
‘flare’ sounds like it’s flaring in her mouth. <br />
Even the word ‘light’ has lightness. <br />
The ‘t’,
<br />
the merest tip of something. I imagine <br />
her upstairs on her own under the lights <br />
watching it flare. Yes, it’s cool to the touch, <br />
she says, but there’s a warm current too like<br />
the sea in summer. Then – No! <br />
she says, fingermarks! <br />
Picks up the bowl and takes it to her table.
<br />
I go back to the Happiness Bowls. They are less
<br />
serious now: pastel, talky, glib. Something to
<br />
carry in a pocket, to bring out when confidence <br />
flags. Why are they here: <br />
to give happiness or to<br />
hold happiness? Or perhaps, and I feel this <br />might be it: the bowls are happy. And what is <br />that when it is so small an equation, so easily<br />
etched? I nod goodbye to the woman, behind<br />
her table again. She is<br />
polishing the red bowl <br />
with
a soft blue cloth, her whole attention on it. <br />
<br />
<br />
Mary McCallum<br />
<br />
It's the fourth birthday of Tuesday Poem. I can hardly believe it's gone on so long! Inspired by all the fun Michelle Elvy (our precious hub-subbie) has been having with our usual birthday collaboration (okay - fun and HARD work), I decided to write a poem - and then got side-tracked on a old poem which had never felt quite right in language and form. So here it is again, streamlined ... hopefully better. And a HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!<br />
<br />
I have to say I am deeply indebted to the wonderful Michelle Elvy for taking on the job of sub for our Tuesday Poem hub, relieving me of my weekly duties overseeing the posts there. After Michelle finishes her stint, there's another hub-subbie lined up and so it goes. And I will try and write more poems :) with the space these lovely poets have given me. And thanks as always to the wonderful Claire Beynon my co-curator.<br />
<br />
So, please check out our hub now -- take a squizz at the fourth birthday poem, and then read some of our poets in the sidebar.<br />
<br />
Go <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/2014/04/three-plus-one-four-poems-for-birthday.html">HERE</a> to the hub ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-78664768255853765682014-02-11T07:40:00.000+13:002014-02-11T07:40:51.326+13:00Tuesday Poem: Chemotherapy<div class="MsoNormal">
who knew she was there</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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hidden inside that thing that turns <o:p></o:p></div>
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her girl upside down and inside out <o:p></o:p></div>
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(poison, really, a small inefficient <o:p></o:p></div>
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killing field) let loose in a body still <o:p></o:p></div>
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young enough to smell of milk <o:p></o:p></div>
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in the morning, one the mother must <o:p></o:p></div>
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return to sit beside and stand over<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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to stroke the soft cheek, catch the soft <o:p></o:p></div>
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vomit, be steel to all that softness — a shield —<o:p></o:p></div>
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and, when called upon, to scream <o:p></o:p></div>
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like a banshee <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>yet,
for the most part, <o:p></o:p></div>
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sits beside is all she can do, hands in lap<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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but running the spellcheck just now <o:p></o:p></div>
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over the girl’s story — all those <o:p></o:p></div>
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words, sharp teeth biting at the last <o:p></o:p></div>
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of life’s full belly — there she is! <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mother</i> <o:p></o:p></div>
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over and over:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the unexpected
heart <o:p></o:p></div>
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of the matter, with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">key</i>
on one side, <o:p></o:p></div>
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and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">happy </i>on the
other<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mary McCallum<o:p></o:p></div>
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This poem is for my friend Jan. Do check out other Tuesday Poems - there's the magnificent <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/2014/02/bogong-moth-by-joe-dolce.html">Bogong Moth on the hub</a> and then in the sidebar you can find 30 poets with poems they've posted especially for today. Enjoy! </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-63974426080790913962013-11-19T13:40:00.000+13:002013-11-19T13:42:32.487+13:00Tuesday Poem: Little Dog’s Rhapsody In The Night by Mary Oliver, a reading<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/76060890" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/76060890">Mary Oliver reads a poem from Dog Songs</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user20035503">The Penguin Press</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Oh this is just perfect. I am working on a poetry book at the moment with dog poems in it (that's as a publisher not a poet), and the poet sent me a link to Mary Oliver's new book called <a href="http://thepenguinpress.com/book/dog-songs/">DOG SONGS</a> (The Penguin Press 2013). I love Mary Oliver's work already -- and now I love it doubly. Such perfect lines...<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f2f5f7; font-family: Georgia, calluna-1, calluna-2, times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Could there be a sweeter arrangement? Over and over</span><span style="background-color: #f2f5f7; font-family: Georgia, calluna-1, calluna-2, times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">he gets to ask.</span><span style="background-color: #f2f5f7; font-family: Georgia, calluna-1, calluna-2, times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">I get to tell.</span></blockquote>
Do go to the <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/" style="font-family: Georgia, calluna-1, calluna-2, times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Tuesday Poem</a> hub for a fire cracker of a post on Les Murray, by Zireaux, and to see the other TP poets there.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-89324502350973665732013-10-22T22:25:00.001+13:002013-10-22T22:30:05.786+13:00Tuesday Poem: Tangaroa at Days Bay: the fishing man by John Horrocks<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">I love the bountifulness of this poem and the water and the fact of a god. John Horrocks, who was once a farmer in the Wairarapa and wrote wonderful poems about hills called Mount Misery and sheepdogs, lives close to the sea now (and close to where I live) and writes often of water. I remember hearing this poem read the first time and loving the movement of it, and the sounds. I have seen the Tuffery print too - it's fantastic. John's poem is included in Eastbourne (an anthology) which I am co-editing and is out soon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">When you've read this poem do go to the <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/if-you-are-lucky-by-michelle-mcgrane.html">Tuesday Poem hub </a>where a young South African has a wonderful sensual poem posted ... </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-12989693248636833342013-10-11T07:35:00.001+13:002013-10-11T07:38:43.037+13:00Alice Munro Nobel Prize in Literature<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN0P09Zacd8MhMHtdc9ISPgv4Swx1T1kPgai7irpKWJ14UuTuU62FzOzLlGCLmcjn6AstoUBgaUxRHuIqqers8EjCqdmc8oLhCM9i2kvb_PrIzJSDFnI0vxAFpkwMvD6OR6LBHS5C6lxo/s1600/hi-munro-cp-7528442.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN0P09Zacd8MhMHtdc9ISPgv4Swx1T1kPgai7irpKWJ14UuTuU62FzOzLlGCLmcjn6AstoUBgaUxRHuIqqers8EjCqdmc8oLhCM9i2kvb_PrIzJSDFnI0vxAFpkwMvD6OR6LBHS5C6lxo/s320/hi-munro-cp-7528442.jpeg" width="320" /></a>Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize in Literature! Brilliant. The tag line on the <a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/">Nobel website</a> is 'master of the contemporary short story'. Canadians have been known to call her their Chekhov.<br />
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A short article <a href="http://flavorwire.com/419469/alice-munro-wins-nobel-canadians-and-women-feel-quietly-superior/">here</a> articulates the beauty of this win - the way we struggle to say exactly what it is that makes Alice Munro so great and how she's credited with doing the 'woman writer thing' exceptionally well: making the small things of life some how big with the attention she pays - but then the article lands on 'some kind of alchemy of form and content' as the only way of understanding Munro's greatness, before throwing up its hands and saying - in effect - just <i>read</i> her! Do please, yes. <br />
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I tried to discuss Munro's genius in a blog post <a href="http://mary-mccallum.blogspot.co.nz/2008/08/importance-of-looking-out-of-window.html">five years ago</a> and talked about the time Munro spent looking out of windows. Yes, not looking inside at her own life and her own angst but <i>outside</i>, at people passing by, and what they do. In her words,<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens', but the way everything happens.</span></blockquote>
How she wrote short stories because she was a wife and mother and busy thinking always about others needs, so there was time for little recreation except looking through windows, and writing short fiction. Her first collection of stories was published in 1968 when she was 37. I talked in the blog post about reading one of Munro's stories in her collection <i>Runaway</i> while I was working hard on my 2007 novel The Blue - and how it showed me 'suddenly and simply how to write about love in a way that was unsentimental, visceral, raw, astonishing'. And I quoted Munro...<br />
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I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens.</blockquote>
... And then I found a perspicacious review in the International Herald Tribune:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The distinctions that Munro has been elaborating on for years along the prairies, small towns, and modest lives of Canada operate upon the heart. They are particle metaphysics, and their collisions release an energy that all but mutates the reader's mental and emotional genes.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Afterward, we glow faintly in the dark.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Heart is a word dangerously subject to sentimental abuse; even worse is heartstrings. Useful, though, in attempting to suggest the nature of Munro's art. She moves on a fine workaday surface; then, unsignaled, reaches deep with delicate and knowing fingers to tug the filament of a brainily targeted emotion. Her unremarkable landscapes are dotted with rabbit holes; falling in, we grow, we shrink, we are at a loss, and then unexpectedly found.</span></blockquote>
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Congratulations Alice Munro. And Canada (love that country and its writers). Thanks <a href="http://www.beattiesbookblog.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/alice-munro-wins-nobel-canadians-and.html">Bookman Beattie</a> who shared the news with me first thing this morning.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-86874456298383434282013-09-10T00:05:00.000+12:002013-09-11T00:13:18.731+12:00The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/WHclDG71OlA" width="420"></iframe><br />
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Ted Hughes reads. And, yes, this is the poem coming - a shadow lagging - a creature about its own business - the widening, deepening greenness - then - yes! - it enters the hole of the head. Printed. Genius.<br />
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Please take time to enter the poem at the Tuesday Poem hub this week. It is an anti-war poem by a father to a son written by Jamaican poet Geoffrey Philp, editor Rethabile Masilo in Paris. A marvellous poem an commentary. <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/2013/09/a-poem-for-innocents.html">Here.</a><br />
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And congratulations to New Zealand author Eleanor Catton for being short-listed for the Booker Award with her novel The Luminaries. The third kiwi ever to do it, I believe. Proud.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-39948997333427997612013-08-12T22:38:00.000+12:002013-08-12T23:31:29.886+12:00Tuesday Poem: The StormShe dreams of wheelie
bins hurled from great
heights and wakes to find
the street a thicket
of meat trays and
fruit nets and eggboxes; the asphalt, a jig-saw
puzzle. The dog is discovered
at the neighbour’s –
the fence, worn thin by
salt wind, is down.
The woman who dreamed
of wheelie bins stands by
the gap calling the dog
and sees the vege garden
for the first time. All those
trellises, all that lawn,
a purpose-built compost.
All the way
to the shops, she sees
how delicate things are:
the way asphalt is only a skin
and trees are brittle
at the tips, and roofs – usually
so respectful – can turn
and laugh at you. At the café,
she shares a table with a woman
who forgets
how old she is. She needs to text
her husband to find out. She’s
not old, she’s just in pieces. Together the two
women watch a family walk its
belongings from a sodden house –
cat bed, cushions, crime paperbacks.
A truck pulls up with orange
cones and men in high-visibility
jackets. Someone cheers. Both
at the same time, the women
lift their bags and go. At
home she tries to fix
the fence. There’s a blackbird
contemplating
the lid of her wheelie bin, he’s
pinkish in the light. The bin lid is yellow,
the sky, yes, at last! a little blue.<br />
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Mary McCallum<br />
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We've had a big earthquake since but we're still fixing things up from a massive storm that hit us some weeks back. The asphalt is still jig-saw-like in parts and sand is over the footpath and rubbish bins are wrenched from the ground. We were lucky really... just a fence down. That bit of the poem is me. The rest is true of other people I know. How helpless storms make you feel and 'in pieces'. Enjoy Tuesday Poem this week both here and at the hub where Australian poet and author Catherine Bateson unfolds a gem for us... Go <a href="http://www.tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com/">here. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-57980859955377295102013-07-28T10:46:00.000+12:002013-07-28T10:47:24.124+12:00Eleanor Catton in Wellington and beyond<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR37C9uolhVOq7RTSqIxbAEoz6wfi7otFJVGfXygYCrE2VpWKcieNivxV2M5Gg8ptim88fU9fpirVF00nboteZt8zEzEVoT2M5785bWoL2dXX2_xCtvuruYdmVJrsGXiYHGrYlzeS5HeE/s1600/115-EC11PO-9419-TMax-3200-NG-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR37C9uolhVOq7RTSqIxbAEoz6wfi7otFJVGfXygYCrE2VpWKcieNivxV2M5Gg8ptim88fU9fpirVF00nboteZt8zEzEVoT2M5785bWoL2dXX2_xCtvuruYdmVJrsGXiYHGrYlzeS5HeE/s320/115-EC11PO-9419-TMax-3200-NG-1.jpg" width="320" /></a>The extraordinary writer Eleanor Catton has done what few (only two?) New Zealanders have done before. At the tender age of 27 she has a novel on the Booker longlist: The Luminaries. And we in Wellington can see and hear this author at her book launch <a href="http://www.unitybooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-the-luminaries-by-eleanor-catton/">next Saturday 5 pm at Unity</a> Books and at a Modern Letters' <a href="http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/about/events/writers-on-mondays-the-luminaries-eleanor-catton">Writers on Monday event </a>5 August 12.15 at Te Papa.<br />
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I'm not surprised to hear of Eleanor Catton's success. She is a singular talent. Four years ago I reviewed her first novel The Rehearsal in a blog post entitled <a href="http://mary-mccallum.blogspot.co.nz/2009/09/catton-among-pigeons.html">Catton among the pigeons </a>and, lost in a strange metaphor of my own making, said:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"This terribly-young author is already a cat-like phenomenon in the Big Book Square of the World with its greening statues of the famous and host of perching pigeons. She's won Best First Novel here and a similar award in the UK, and is lined up for m</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">ore. The book reviewers and writers' festivals love her. One UK reviewer picked </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The Rehearsal</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> as the future face of the novel."</span></blockquote>
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There's a great write-up of Eleanor Catton's recent success by Robert Sullivan on the MIT <a href="http://w3.manukau.ac.nz/wordpress/manu-korero/2013/07/23/congratulations-to-eleanor-catton/">website here</a> where she teaches and a brief TV interview <a href="http://www.3news.co.nz/Kiwi-up-for-prestigious-Man-Booker-prize/tabid/312/articleID/306370/Default.aspx">here.</a> I'm looking forward to reading The Luminaries - at 800+ pages I will need to put some significant time aside.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-57522618182804450382013-07-23T00:10:00.000+12:002013-07-23T00:10:29.911+12:00Tuesday Poem: Tassel by Saradha Koirala<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">The action of giving turns out</span><br />
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to be a gesture for making a deal<br />
the promise of discount, save or Be Saved.<br />
I gather what I can<br />
listen for insights from passing chatter<br />
squint the world into a spin.</div>
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a tassel of her shawl caught in his cufflink<br />
well-dressed for this time of day.<br />
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the cufflinks, the shawl the slow pace of their walk<br />
spin the world into a gilded string.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em;">This poem is from Saradha's new collection Tear Water Tea out soon. It has the most beautiful cover designed by her partner and is published by Steele Roberts. I love Saradha's images that are both delicate and strong,</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em;"> like this one. Who would have thought a tassel would have had so much life in it! I am caught up in my family history at the moment -- working on my mother's memoir -- and so perfect images like the one above: the tassel caught in his cufflink, resonate. And I always like a fairytale reference. </span></div>
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Happy reading!<br />
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Tassel is published with permission. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-59673285552143568382013-07-16T13:44:00.001+12:002013-07-16T13:44:21.755+12:00Tuesday Poem: Alice the CamelAlice wakes up one morning. Her lover sings to her: Alice the<br />
Camel has two humps. It's an action song.<br />
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Short and sweet today - one of the gems from The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider by Janis Freegard, another Tuesday Poet. The chapbook is published by <a href="http://www.anomalouspress.org/chapbooks.php">Anomalous Press in the US</a>, and I have one, and I treasure it. It's the size of a hand and the prose poems are long and short and will make you smile and nod and shake your head a lot. Janis is launching it in NZ soon. Watch this space. Do head over to <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/2013/07/a-garage-by-robert-gray.html">the TP hub</a> where there's a wonderful wonderful poem A GARAGE by an Australian poet called Robert Gray.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-79334047070612005282013-06-25T23:42:00.002+12:002013-06-25T23:42:22.396+12:00Tuesday Poem: Flash Fiction Dead Space
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><b>Dead Space</b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">Catch the boy out there standing
like a bird with one foot tucked behind a calf looking at the sea. He isn’t at
soccer practice. He isn’t on the scout tramp to Chatham Creek. He isn’t playing
Dead Space 2 while Bridgie practices her scales. Up and down, up and down. The
boy, Jesse, is allergic to scales and allergic to Bridgie who squeaks like a
bird when he interrupts her. </span><i style="line-height: 150%;">Dead Space
2. Necromorphs for god’s sake. I need to concentrate</i><span style="line-height: 150%;">. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"> But she just squeaks
and then she squeals and then Mum comes wiping her hands on a tea-towel, and
she wants to know where he got the damn game from. Then it’s all over red
rover, as his dad says, and he’s outside, like his dad usually is, smoking,
except Jesse’s not smoking because he’s run out of smokes. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"> Catch the boy before he leaves. Not the
boy leaving. The father leaving. Country Road bag in hand – Bridgie’s bag for
sleepovers. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">He says to the boy, ‘Bye, Jess’, and he says to the boy, ‘Be good
for your Mum.’ </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"> And his dad puts down the stupid bag, and the look on his face is
that sort of look he gets when he comes home and it’s his birthday and Mum’s
made a special dinner. Hopeful. Or something. He blinks too much, thinks Jesse,
his breath smells like shit. When his dad hugs him, Jesse puts his foot down so
he won’t topple. The scales have stopped. Jesse thinks of Necromorphs. He
smells sweat and smokes. That’s how Necromorphs would smell, he thinks. And
they’d blink too fast. His father used to play the piano. He bought the piano
for Jesse to play but Jesse didn’t want to play. He just didn’t. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><i>Dead Space</i> isn't a poem, not really, but as Flash Fiction, it's a comely blend of poetry and short fiction. Three hundred words only and a lot of fun to write. More fun to discover my story was placed third in the <a href="http://nationalflash.wordpress.com/winners-2013/">National Flash Fiction Day Competition, June 22</a>. It came in after the winning story by Frankie McMillan <i>In the nick of time, a deer</i>, and Rebecca Styles' second placed story <i>Parade, </i>and was read at a NZ Society of Authors open mic evening in Wellington last night. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">Congratulations to Frankie and Rebecca and all those short and long-listed. T</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">hanks to Tuesday Poet Michelle Elvy for encouraging me to enter with her fabulous flash fiction facebooking. And thanks to the kind donor who has given some money so the winners get a cash prize - how good is that? </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">I decided<i> </i>to enter the competition the evening of the deadline, and had a sentence in my head and went from there. As happens with this sort of approach, I didn't know where I was headed or where the Necromorphs came from (they do exist, in a game called Dead Space - but what are they doing <i>here</i>? and they are so right.) The point of view veers back and forth a bit from the boy to the dad. If I'd had time I would have worked at making it more consistent, but in fact I like the inconsistency and uncertainty now, and it works better with paragraphing, which wasn't in the original - becoming more like a play. </span></div>
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This used to be all forest, not so long ago, and I could tell by the sorrow<o:p></o:p></div>
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that haunts the wide, flat roads, that seeps out of the sense of openness,<o:p></o:p></div>
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something is missing, something is wrenched askew, as the river runs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The wind blows through, in rolling gusts, baffled, and almost angry.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The wind is searching for the Papaioea Forest. How beautiful it was. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Tonight, behind the necklace of glittering lights below, is the darkness<o:p></o:p></div>
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which is the hills. Upon them, when it is light, like many crucifixions,<o:p></o:p></div>
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the wind farm. Then the long, ungainly arms swoop and seem to bless.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I will admit, to you, that I have found Palmerston North disconcerting.</div>
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<a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/palmy-by-jennifer-compton.html">More here at the Tuesday Poem hub. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688274121226963086.post-832456737457750252013-06-04T00:26:00.000+12:002013-06-04T23:20:19.172+12:00Tuesday Poem: Ruby<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;">running till they’re butter. Ed’s talking <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;">Andrew is pissing on the wall now </span>and Colin’s</span><br />
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following in his shark tooth
hat. He tells a story</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">about living on Long Island and how, walking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">with his bulldog, he was sometimes mistaken</span><br />
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for Truman Capote. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Justine <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is blonde and pregnant<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;">and me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;">because there’s Ruby - over there – sniffing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;">His blood is revolting, turning on his heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;">I squeeze his hand. He squeezes back, eyes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;">Next time we see Ed, he’s at the corner <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the little mite.’ </span>We</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;">here,’ says Ed, ‘You’ll never guess.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;">and Ed’s having a ball. We’re all having a ball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><o:p>Mary McCallum </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><o:p>This poem was written very long time ago. Nine years. But I've been redrafting it over the past two months. </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ;"><o:p>Ed doesn't walk Billy now because he isn't well enough so his wife Patricia does it instead. We always stop and chat when we see them, but Billy and Ruby are older and greyer and only sniff each other now - no churning. Colin passed away five years ago and his beloved Andrew followed. Garwain, if that was his name, moved away with Charlie. So, I think, did Justine and her dogs and her Ruby - but I'm not sure about that. I just haven't seen them in a while. I still enjoy my daily walks with <i>my</i> Ruby but it's been a while since it was quite so social and quite so much fun. </o:p></span></div>
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the weather coming in across the harbour</div>
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and by weather, I mean</div>
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a breath like a peppermint-eating cyclist,</div>
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nothing, and then suddenly something</div>
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fresh and light at your shoulder, and all</div>
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the way up we'd turned</div>
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its line drawn and redrawn in the water</div>
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closer each time</div>
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and how fast we walked</div>
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to be ahead -- to the top of Ferry Road</div>
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and onto the track through the new</div>
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growing spindly things and the crocheted</div>
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spider webs and the splash of rata</div>
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and push of green and the confetti</div>
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of beech leaves on the rise and</div>
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fall --</div>
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up and</div>
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'There,' I said at last, as we stood<br />
looking back at the weather again, half<br />
the water crinkled now -- an old man<br />
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smiling, 'is where the pa of Te Hiha stood<br />
he could see anything coming --<br />
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of the harbour.'<br />
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We'd left the beach in stillness, and<br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "lucida grande"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><i><br /></i></o:p></span></div>
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