Tuesday, September 15, 2015

The Tuesday Poem


The Tuesday Poem this week is "History: The Horse" by CK Stead, one of the greats of NZ letters and recently appointed NZ's poet laureate. The poem has been featured by expatriate NZ poet, Jennifer Compton, who describes its parent collection, The Red Tram, as a book that has "ease and sense of occasion."

"History: The Horse

Recall those wartime
draught horses pulling
carts around our suburb -

milk, bread, firewood – like
the record of something
irretrievably

lost ..."

To read more, click on:

History: The Horse

You can also check out other great poems from the international Tuesday Poem community, featured in the left hand side bar on the Tuesday Poem Blog.

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