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Wellington Fool

by Mark Pirie

   ESAW mini series no 2

Wellington Fool is Mark Pirie's thirteenth poetry collection.  Published in the ESAW mini series, Wellington Fool consists of 15 new poems and includes a photo of the author by John Girdlestone (after the John Cougar Mellencamp album photo for American Fool).

The poems, mainly situated in Wellington, comment on events social, personal and political. Highlights include a trip to Frank Sargeson's cottage on Esmonde Rd, Auckland, an elegy for Aotearoa and Maori music icon Dalvanius Prime and a poem written at Te Herenga Waka Marae, Wellington, for writer/poet Apirana Taylor. Popular music artists and groups like Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Sonic Youth, and U2 also feature in the poems.

Mark Pirie was born in Wellington New Zealand, in 1974. He is the Managing Editor for HeadworX, a small press publisher of poetry/fiction. His poems and critical essays have been widely published in India, New Zealand, Croatia, the Singapore, Canada and the UK. In 1998 University of Otago Press  published his anthology of ‘Generation X’ writing, The NeXt Wave. He is an editor of JAAM literary journal (New Zealand), the contributing New Zealand editor for papertiger (Australia), and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Antipodes (USA). Salt Publishing, Cambridge, England, recently published his new and selected poems, Gallery: A Selection. His other work includes 12 collections of poems and a book of short fiction.  A new collection, London Notebook, was published by ESAW in 2005.

TITLE               Wellington Fool
AUTHOR         Mark Pirie
PUBLISHED    2006
CATEGORY    New Zealand Poetry
FORMAT         Mini booklet, No. 2 in the ESAW Mini series
EXTENT           A6, 24 pages
ISBN                1-86942-063-2
PRICE               $5.00

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