Wednesday, July 25, 2012

New Zealand Poetry Finalists & Margaret Mahy celebrated on Tuesday Poem this week



The finalists in the NZ Book Awards' Poetry category are posted on Tuesday Poem this week in celebration of National Poetry Day this coming Friday - three great poems from three great writers: Dinah Hawken, Anna Jackson and Rhian Gallagher, selected by Andrew M. Bell. 

And Tuesday Poem also farewells the great Margaret Mahy who died in Christchurch yesterday:  the linked Booksellers NZ blog has posted The Fairy Child as a tribute to a remarkable writer who has touched so many around the world. In the sidebar of Tuesday Poem, there are 30 poets with poems posted on a Tuesday that they've written themselves or selected - and there are, as you'd expect, some tributes there too for Mahy. Definitely worth a visit. 

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