Men Briefly Explained at Tuesday Poem this weekA poem from Tim Jones' about-to-be published collection 'Men Briefly Explained' is at the Tuesday Poem hub this week. Alicia Ponder is the editor and she explains she selected 'Shetland Ponies, Haast Beach'
because she found it instantly compelling:
"It's the first stanza deliberately filled with contemplative pauses - echoing those empty spaces of memories from a long-forgotten past - and the lovely shape in the way the poem moves between the present and the past, with glimpses of these, as if from a car window on a long journey to a pivotal destination. The poem as a whole has a real feeling of reclaimed memories in a solid and imperative now. "
Alicia also talks about the enornous support Tim gives to other NZ poets - and in characteristic modesty, on Tim's own blog this week, he has posted a Tuesday Poem by another Wellingtonian Janis Freegard, without so much as mentioning that he's doing a star turn at the TP hub.
In fact Janis does a bit of a star turn herself, also featuring on Helen Rickerby's blog. Both her poems are from her much-praised collection Kingdom Animalia: The Escapades of Linnaeus.
And there are a host of other poems in the Tuesday Poem sidebar...
just pop along and see. A great thing to do when you're all snowed in ... (there is in fact even a snow poem by Helen Lowe) - enjoy!
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