The poet at the heart of the Tuesday Poem blog community this week is Marjory Nicholls who was born in 1891, published three collections (A Venture in Verse, Gathered Leaves and Thirdly), lived and travelled widely overseas, and died in a bus stop accident in 1930.
Poetry Archive of New Zealand Aotearoa (PANZA) archivist Niel Wright, who republished her complete poems in two volumes through Original Books in 2009, says that ‘Nicholls was a leading New Zealand poet of the decade 1910-1920’. She was mentored by J H E Schroder who influenced among others Robin Hyde, Ruth Gilbert and Wright himself.
The poem, selected by this week's guest editor poet and publisher Mark Pirie, is The Homely Ghost.
Mark Pirie is also a co-organiser of PANZA which has around 4,000 titles including the work of Marjory Nicholls.
After reading the hub poem, the Tuesday Poem reader is encouraged to visit the 'sidebar' where 30 poets from NZ, the UK, the US and Australia reside - posting poems by themselves and others they admire, literally from A to Z: from Anne Kennedy to Catullus, from Claire Beynon to Eileen Moeller, from Patricia Ace to Zireaux. Come and visit.
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