Tuesday Poem -- 24 November 2015 -- Maggie Rainey-Smith's
'Ngawhatu'
Today we have a wonderfully personal poem by Maggie
Rainey-Smith. Ngawhatu takes
us on the road to this mysterious place -- a place unspoken when you were
kids...
Jennifer Compton, the TP Editor this week, heard Maggie read
this poem at the Poetry Conference and Litcrawl recently, and she shares her
own thoughts as well, beginning with her first encounter with this poem:
What a stunner. I was very much taken with it. I loved the old
school vernacular, and the old school mindset. And of course, the poem meant
just that little bit more to me because my husband's mother was the deputy
matron of Ngawhatu for quite a long time. My husband spent his school holidays in
her cottage on the grounds.
Please do take time to go the page and read more from both
Maggie and Jennfer -- this poem is a warm, personal reflection that
stays with you.
Also, worth mentioning here is that Maggie Rainey-Smith's
new novel, Daughters
of Messene, has just been released by Makaro Press (who also
published Jennifer's novella Mr Clean
& the Junkie earlier this year!) -- last night the
book was launched by Fiona Kidman in Wellington.
Congratulations to Maggie Rainey-Smith, and thank you,
Jennifer Compton, for sharing this poem this week!
Please also check out all other TP contributors this week as
well, who have poems posted on their poetry sites. They can be found on the
sidebar at the TP site.
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