It's Wednesday 22 February - the day the earthquake struck
Christchurch a whole year ago. The quake struck on a Tuesday, and Tuesday Poets
this week - 30 poets from NZ, Australia, UK and the US - have posted
poems that remember that time. Some written straight after the earthquake, some
later.
One of the Christchurch poets - Catherine
Fitchett - hasn't the heart to post a poem, another- Helen
Lowe - has written a moving piece of prose about her feelings a year
on and another - Andrew Bell - has
posted a poem of restrained anger and sadness about the devastation of the
world he loves. In the poets 'on sabbatical' on TP, you can find the poem by
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman poor bare forked
animal that rages, like Lear on the heath, against the earthquake, and a
power poem written by Joanna Preston called simply Fault. Two
Wellington poets, Mary McCallum and Tim Jones, have re-posted poems they wrote
shortly the quakes - Earth (September)
and Landlines (February).
Go to the Tuesday
Poem community site to find all the poems linked in the sidebar.
All the poems are ways to grab the stories and language of a
terrible time and put it, for better or worse, on the page. To give them a kind
of permanence. To help us understand better, perhaps, and to remember.
Photo - NZ Herald
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