Sunday, March 06, 2011

"Tingling Catch is a blog site for the anthology, A Tingling Catch: A Century of New Zealand Cricket Poems 1864-2009 .

edited by Mark Pirie; foreword by Don Neely
(HeadworX Publishers, Wellington, New Zealand, 2010).

The blog features reviews and commentary on the book as well as New Zealand cricket poetry and other related material. The book's cover is by UK cricket painter Jocelyn Galsworthy.

The blog is updated on a weekly basis with cricket poetry articles and interviews and reviews of recent New Zealand cricket books and is referenced by the National Library of New Zealand and World Cat as an online resource:

http://tinglingcatch.blogspot.com/

Recent posts include:

• Poetry NZ review of A Tingling Catch

• Jack Gallichan's WWII NZ cricket poem

• Cyril Childs's NZ cricket haiku

• Waikato Times review of A Tingling Catch

• Summer Reads: Brendon McCullum: Inside Twenty20

• Don Clarke as cricketer

• Summer Reads: The Bert Sutcliffe Story

• Joseph Romanos discusses A Tingling Catch

• Tim Finn's NZ cricket song Runs in the Family

• Summer Reads: Shane Bond: Looking Back

The blog has received thousands of visitors since October 2010, mostly from cricket playing countries like NZ, UK, USA, Australia, India, Canada and the Netherlands."

1 comment:

James Chapman said...

Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I love cricket and poems being a writer originally from England.
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