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London Notebook

by Mark Pirie

"London Notebook" is an all new collection of poems by prolific Wellington poet, Mark Pirie. Following hot on the heels of his Selected Early Poems from Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, "Giving Poetry a Bad Name", this new book presents a witty artist's sketchbook of his time in the UK from March-April 2005 when he attended the London Book Fair and various poetry readings around London.  Paperback, 80 pages, includes photos. Price $25.00    

Reviews

London Notebook is a new take on the travel diary with impressions of the old world seen through fresh eyes." - Liz Smith, The Wellingtonian  

Another little book of some worth, from Mark Pirie. The energy here is to be admired and mostly, it pays off....these are entertaining pieces that most people will identify with. - Trevor Reeves, Southern Ocean Review

Leading poet and editor Michael Harlow writes of Pirie's new collection: 
"Meant as an artist's sketchbook, it provides a brief traveller's album of chance experiences and events', is aptly accurate to practice in this latest collection by poet and editor Mark Pirie's London Notebook. Briefs and letter-poems and post-card snaps, and the occasional apercu--like a passing messenger-bird snatched from the air--, comprise an album of observations and reflections that remind us how it is travel can sometimes return you to yourself. And in ways that keep the reader alert to more than just field-notes and diary jottings. Pirie at the top of his form, can be sharp-witted, tender, sometimes even loitering with the best kind of intent at the very edge of the ordinary. When he's on his 'mark', as it were, he can open up and extend the everyday in ways that matter beyond the brief encounter and the passing glance." 

AUTHOR:       Mark Pirie  
TITLE:             London Notebook  
FORMAT:       Paperback  
CATEGORY:  NZ Poetry  
EXTENT:         80 pages A5
PRICE:            $25.00  
ISBN:             1-86942-058-6

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