The Tuesday Poem this week is "Papatoetoe Poems"
by Tony Beyer, selected by Keith Westwater: http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/2015/06/papatoetoe-poems-by-tony-beyer.html
Keith
says about "Papatoetoe Poems":
I wasn't quite sure what I was going
to find when I started reading the poems, other than reconnections with shared
past places. What I also found were images that resonated with me - the words
on the headstones in this detached green fingertip, and loose
metal at the road-side/signed by footprints and hooves, and a line
of poplars/thrashing as the wind comes on.
Tony's ability to evoke through his writing a universal New Zealand 1950s suburbia through these particular Papatoetoe instances impressed me - the billy left out for milk, the telephone party line, the paspalum fringing the clothesline, the boy across the road who was left behind in the childhood we all shared.
Tony's ability to evoke through his writing a universal New Zealand 1950s suburbia through these particular Papatoetoe instances impressed me - the billy left out for milk, the telephone party line, the paspalum fringing the clothesline, the boy across the road who was left behind in the childhood we all shared.
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