He begins the post: I selected this poem because of its personal connection with the Maori Battalion, and my admiration for Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (pic left by Maarten Holl, Dom Post) who was the first Polynesian poet to have a book published in English, the spectacularly successful Mine Eyes Dazzle (Pegasus Press, 1950, 1951, 1956) with an Oxford revised edition called Wild Honey in 1964.
Alongside the hub poem are poems in the live blog roll from 30 Tuesday Poets who come from NZ, the UK, the US and Australia, on everything from moonlit apples to Quasimodo.
http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com/2010/12/to-stuart-by-alistair-te-ariki-campbell.html
Thanks for posting this Graham. You're so supportive of the Tuesday Poem community and we're very grateful. It is going from strength to strength and celebrates Christmas next week with a 'secret santa' pairing of poets across the globe www.tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteAnd feedback from across the globe, too.
ReplyDeleteA reader on my blog last week posted that: "We ... are hooked on the Tuesday poem blog (though where we live it’s still Monday)."