Claire Beynon is the editor of Tuesday Poem this week and
she has chosen "News from the Island" by Tracey Sullivan, a New
Zealand poet presently residing in the Netherlands.
Tracey explains the genesis of her poem:
"For me this poem is about finding a path, often
between opposites, finding balance, making sense of loss and longing. The poem
is full of
contrasts: warmth and cold, presence and loss, external
and internal, wildness/passion and the constructive taming of those. The
literal story is of a chance meeting with the Waiheke-based artist, Te Ao
Marama Ngarimu, whose work I admire. He worked as we spoke and I was struck by
the time-consuming preparation of natural materials, the meticulous detail that
goes into his weaving and how much life, passion and love is reflected in the
finished work.
I have spent quite a lot of time on the Island over the
last few years.
I am never ready to leave. It is part of the balancing
act. The need to walk between pragmatism, judgement, decisiveness, and desire,
emotion, connection. Making mistakes sometimes. Finding the path as you go
along."
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