Having done a preliminary fossick myself on the way home from an appointment, I would like to remind Christchurch bibliophiles that the UBS Canterbury Annual Book Sale is on right now – with some seriously good poetry specials, including a copy of Simon Armitage's version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (Try the sale …
Tuesday Poem – “The Messenger”
Not a postcard, or a tease of lace. In my absence I send a strange messenger, my love but true – I send a spoon. Its haft slips into your hand gladly, like mine, returns the faint warmth of fingers and thumb helpful as a wife. The curve of its bowl against your lips – …
Earthquake update
Thanks to everyone who has been asking how we're doing in the aftermath of Saturday's earthquake. We're both fine so far, although the aftershocks are scaring the bejesus out of us on a regular basis. But the house is ok, we're both uninjured, and there's been no real damage to anything. The chimney has cracks …
Tuesday Poem – “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal”, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The firefly wakens: waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae …
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WA Spring Poetry Festival 2010
Sorry things here at A Dark Feathered Art have been so quietly lately. Life has become somewhat complicated, not least of all because on Saturday afternoon I'm heading across the Tasman to attend the 2010 WA Spring Poetry Festival and Australian National Poetry Week. It's my first festival as a guest artist – I'm the …
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