The poem this week at Tuesday Poem is "Lucifer In Las Vegas" by Joanna Preston, a poet from Canterbury.
Helen Lowe is the editor of Tuesday Poem this week and she says of her choice:
"I am a great admirer of Joanna Preston's poetry and consider her award-winning, debut collection, The Summer King (Otago University Press, 2009), one of the most interesting and integrated I have read in recent years. The poem I am featuring today, "Lucifer In Las Vegas", is a new poem, but encapsulates a great many of the elements that first drew me to Joanna's work: wit, intellectual inquiry, the dexterous use of "voice" within the poem, and the unerring delivery of an emotional payoff for the reader."
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