For my Tuesday Poem post this week, I have the pleasure of being the Tuesday Poem hub editor! I have asked the very generous Wellington poet, Mary Cresswell, to share her new poem, ‘Gigabyte’, for pride of place on the TP hub, so do head on over & take the time to read her beautifully crafted thoughts on memory, time & experience. Also, make some time with the morning coffee to read my fellow Tuesday Poet bloggers’ poems & erudite commentary this week – just take a little look along the sidebar at the hub – there are some gems, as always.
I feel a little behind with my blog posting lately; June was an incredibly busy month, both workwise & travel-wise – so there are many honest promises for musings on my Parisian Sorbonne Mansfield paper, inspired Mansfield lectures at the New Zealand Studies Network at Birkbeck, another short fiction published in a Scottish journal, some pics & thoughts about the Keats-Shelley house in Rome, my visit to Shakespeare & Company on the banks of the Seine, another poetry reading and some Typewriter action. These will come, I promise, when time appears to be less elusive.
For the time being, read some Mary Cresswell poetry here!
July 10, 2012 at 9:58 am
Elizabeth, thank you so much for sharing that AMAZING work from Mary Cresswell! I just want to drink those words up. I’m so fascinated by writing on memory, some of those words remind me of some writing Marilynne Robinson has done on memory. Oooh I’m all a-flutter! Thanks again for sharing that
July 11, 2012 at 12:50 am
Hi, Leah! I’m so pleased you like Mary’s poem that I posted for the hub. I was very inspired when I first read it, too, and I’m convinced it’s one of those poems that you eek more and more out of each time you read it. It’s great to have a passionate ‘memory-in-writing’ buddy – I am rather enamoured with time and how it is constructed in literature, as well. Nice thoughts, re: the connection with Marilynne Robinson. I hadn’t thought of her work in connection with Mary’s poem, but it’s triggering all sorts of things now