Poetry nudge for timjones

I've been planning to post a poetry pile for a while now, and here it is! Not the easiest photo to decipher, so here's the list. Quite a few of these are New Zealand poets - if you haven't heard of them, please check them out!

Wild Surmise by Dorothy Porter (verse novel)
Kaupapa: New Zealand Poets, World Issues (anthology)
Speaking in tongues by Lewis Scott (collection - correct touchstone won't appear)
Swings and Roundabouts, edited by Emma Neale (Australasian anthology of poems about parenting)
Feeding Harbour by Sen McGlinn (collection)
The Lakes of Mars by Chris Orsman (collection, mainly about Antarctica)
Paneta Street by Michael O'Leary (collection)
Cold Comfort, Cold Concrete: Poems and Satires by Scott Kendrick
The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan (verse novel)
Spark by Emma Neale (collection)
Magnetic South by Sue Wootton (collection)

All suggestions gratefully received.

Very sneaky way to introduce us to NZ poets, Tim:-) I don't know any of these poets and can't nudge authoritatively here, so I thought I'd investigate a poet or two here and report my findings:

Here's a poem from Emma Neale's collection Spark
http://books.scoop.co.nz/exposure/#more-195

clever formatting, perhaps not my thing. And the anthology of parenting poems, perhaps not my thing either these days (having just had to play mother-of-the-bride yesterday).

Here's a brief piece on Sue Wooton on the NZ Book Council's site:
http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/woottonsue.html
there are links at the bottom to several of her poems in other collections.
Hmmm. I like her "Snow" and "Spring Song" . . .

Perhaps another poetry-loving visitor to this thread would like to google around another name or two?

Sneaky? Moi?

Thanks for posting those links, avaland!

Swings and Roundabouts moves chronologically through parenting: the sections are:

Baby and Toddler (including pregnancy)
Young Children
Teenagers and Adult Children

I haven't checked whether there are any poems about being the mother of the bride, though. How did that go?

Still on Swings and Roundabouts, my "Australasian" was wide of the mark - there are poems by Sylvia Plath, Louise Gluck, and Seamus Heaney in there.

well I'm from New Zealand but I don't read much poetry though the occasional verse novel is quite invigorating. I do read a lot of YA lit so was surprised to see David Levithan on your list so will nudge his Realms of Possibility as I have read a couple of his books.
I did have a quick peek at Swings and Roundabouts in a bookshop the other day but wasn't taken with reading poems about being a parent.

Thanks, aviatikh - it's Levithan 1, Others 0 at this stage

I'm going to do a save-a-nudge by encouraging you to save The Lakes of Mars collection for later in the year when Reading Globally does the polar regions theme (btw, if you want to check in to help out on that, a 'team' is coming together to set up the future thread/s for that. I think it's on the 'future theme reads' thread).

In the mail yesterday, I got this poetry collection by a NZ poet and author by the name of Tim Jones, any relation? I have not had the time to dip into it yet, but I will in the near future.

>3 timjones: re: MOTB thing. I just had to dress up, smile a lot, eat the food and pose for some pictures.

Thanks for the save-a-nudge, avaland. My LT time is showing dangerous signs of encroaching into my writing time, so I will decline your kind offer of joining the polar regions team, but I'll certainly check out the thread.

Ah, that Tim Jones! It's a tragic tale, really - he has become so obsessed with my life that he's changed his name to my name, his address to my address, and his job to my job. Now he writes the same books as I do, but aims to get them into print just before me. It's like Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote but without the jokes.

BTW, I have met two other New Zealand authors named Tim Jones; one of them has a book under our shared author name, A hard-won freedom. It's about New Zealand communes and intentional communities in the 1960s and 1970s, and is very interesting.

The tragic tale above, Tim, is Dostoevsky's The Double. Very, very creepy. Is it a mental breakdown, and only one person, or is there truly a second person, with the same name, same job, in the same apartment....Dostoevsky also does it without the jokes.