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example calm down their horses lift them out of the fight as light as ash or even better he collapsed instantly an unspeakable sorrow to his parents i m getting interested in translation at the moment despite being basically monolingual because i m going to start the seraph press translation series beginning with three chapbooks of poetry poet vana manasiadis is going to be my series co editor anyway so i was very interested in how oswald talks about her approach to translation in the introduction my biographies are paraphrases of the greek my similes are translations however my approach to translation is fairly irreverent i work closely with the greek but instead of carrying the words over to english i use them as opening through which to see what homer was looking at i write through the greek not from it aiming for translucence rather than translation another thing i love that she said in the introduction is there are accounts of greek lament in both the iliad and the odyssey when a corpse was layed out a professional poet someone like homer led the mourning and was anti phonally answered by women offering personal accounts of the deceased i like to think that the stories of individual soldiers recorded in the illiad might be recollections of these laments woven into the narrative by poets who regularly performed both high epic and choral lyric poetry some links to relevant stuff on the internet alice oswald on the poetry archive which includes an audio recording of her reading part of memorial youtube clip of alice oswald reading in boston embedded below she begins by reading from other work actually she s reciting clearly she s memorised everything how stressful and at around 22 minutes she starts talking about memorial guardian review of memorial long interview with alice oswald in the white review afterword to alice oswald s memorial by eavan boland posted by helen rickerby at 10 55 am 2 comments 01 september 2015 well hello again poetry in poetry out it s been an awfully long time since i ve blogged when i started this blog i was keen to write about all sorts of things that entered my head and then i wasn t but suddenly as of yesterday i suddenly felt like putting some stuff up here again mainly for me i m not sure if anyone is reading this anymore the heyday of blogging seems to be over but that s ok what i want to blog about is the poetry that i m reading and to post links to things i like so i can find them again more easily and maybe someone else will find them interesting too at the moment i m in a really fortunate place until the end of the year and hopefully a bit longer my main occupation is to be a poet thanks creative nz i m working on what will all going well be my next book i m calling it how to live because that s what it will be about which is kind of about everything what i ve mainly been doing is reading and thinking and scribbling a lot in my journal i ve been reading a lot about philosophy and philosophers about which i m suddenly and rather belatedly obsessed i ve also been reading some more creative non fiction books and some critical essays about poetry and i ve been making a bunch of connections which is fun and i hope might make their way into the poems somehow though as yet i m not quite sure how i m challenging myself with these poems i m trying to stretch myself sometimes that s a bit scary which is kind of silly because what is the danger anyway i have been feeling in the last week or so that i need to also be reading more poetry poetry that will inspire and excite me and show me possibilities so i asked some people at lunch the other day on poetry day to recommend to me some books by overseas poets contemporary that they thought i might like and should read who isn t anne carson who is probably my poetic hero but i have her books already i am rereading them though and will probably write about her work more in the future it s possible that this list might be interesting to other people so i thought i d post it here also if you have any more suggestions feel free to add them helen s international contemporary poetry reading list caroline bird books watering can 2009 trouble came to the turnip 2006 looking through letterboxes 2002 the hat stand union 2013 jill alexander essbaum the devastation also harlot or necropolis alfred starr hamilton a dark dreambox of another kind robert hass praise selima hill books include bunny 2001 trembling hearts in the bodies of dogs new selected poems 1994 gloria selected poems 2008 the accumulation of small acts of kindness 1989 the sparkling jewel of naturism 2014 people who like meatballs 2012 fruitcake 2009 violet 1997 the hat 2008 jutland 2015 ailish hopper dark sky society marie howe books the kingdom of ordinary time 2008 what the living do 1998 the good thief 1988 luke kennard books include the harbour beyond the movie 2007 the migraine hotel 2009 a lost expression 2014 the solex brothers redux and other prose poems 2005 ben lerner angle of yaw also the lichtenberg figures patricia lockwood balloon pop outlaw black alice oswald in memoriam also dart and weeds and wild flowers clare pollard books ovid s heroines 2013 changeling 2011 look clare look 2005 bedtime 2002 the heavy petting zoo 1998 mary ruefle i have read selected poems but would like to read some more recent work including trances of the blast and the most of it richard siken crush richard siken the war of the foxes a e stallings books include hapax 2005 olives 2012 matthew zapruder books include sun bear 2014 come on all you ghosts 2010 american linden 2002 the pajamaist 2006 posted by helen rickerby at 5 44 pm 2 comments 10 july 2015 book launch invitation i m just about to publish another seraph press book we re launching johanna aitchison s miss dust her third poetry collection in palmerston north next friday this is a super cool book and i m delighted to be publishing it if you can make it to the launch that d be lovely it s at the palmerston north public library on friday 17 july at 6 30 pm there s more about the book and the author over here and i ve even figured out this online selling thing finally and added buttons so you can buy the book online http www seraphpress co nz miss dust html and in fact i have had such a productive day a precious day of non paid work that i ve even started a seraph press mailing list to which i will send out very occasional newsletters about what seraph press is up to wanna join click the pic below posted by helen rickerby at 4 26 pm no comments 04 june 2015 poetry at pegasus come join us at pegasus books on thursday june 11th 6pm for an evening of poetry featuring john dennison anna jackson helen rickerby rhydian thomas and pegasus s own lee posna biscuits and tea after the reading posted by helen rickerby at 12 40 pm no comments 15 december 2014 frankenstein me and pip adam s podcast pip adam who if you don t already know is a really interesting new zealand writer all around lovely and interesting person and my virtual neighbour she lives just down the hill from me has recently started a podcast with the rather perfect title better off read i was initially rather alarmed when she asked to talk to me about frankenstein by mary shelley because i m really not expert or very well read in 19th century literature and it must surely be at least a decade since i ve read frankenstein but when she said that i shouldn t re read it and that it was our memories of it we would talk about i started feeling a little calmer also once i listened to a few of her previous podcasts and understood that the book is just a place to leap off from to other related subjects i started to feel that i could perhaps actually manage this we recorded the podcast on friday and it turned out to be actually very fun it was just like having a really good conversation with pip as i do every time we do have a conversation except that i was a bit more self concious about a not coughing i am recovering from a cold and b not rambling which i have a tendency to do as well as frankenstein the novel we also talk about its author mary shelley about movie versions about a poem i wrote inspired by mary shelley and her novel about other of my poems especially in my iron spine and cinema and some other random stuff i expect if you re interested you ll find it here https betterreadnz wordpress com 2014 12 13 frankenstein and do listen to her other ones too i haven t previously been a listener of podcasts i didn t see quite how they could fit into my life but i ve started listening to them while doing dishes nice to be learning something while doing housework makes it less tedious the housework not the learning posted by helen rickerby at 5 50 pm 2 comments labels better off read frankenstein mary shelly pip adam podcasts 09 december 2014 launch invitations this is a little bit late really if haven t already seen these invitations elsewhere but better late than never girls of the drift first up on thursday 11 december we re launching girls of the drift by nina powles my latest seraph press book this is happening at 6 pm at matchbox studios 166 cuba street wellington invitation below and you can read more about this very cool chapbook by a new young poet here http www seraphpress co nz girls of the drift html two pedants two pedants is an awesome web comic which is about to become an awesome book i am somewhat biased because it is drawn by my husband nevertheless it is still the funniest thing ever we are launching the two pedants book with afternoon tea on sunday 14 december 3 pm at the aro community centre 48 aro street wellington the comic below will be too little to read so you should probably head on over to the website to read it and meet the pedants http www twopedants com 2014 11 two pedants book launch html posted by helen rickerby at 10 29 pm no comments 21 september 2014 from sisi to minnie dean reading poetry in vienna hi there if there s anyone still reading this i haven t posted here in a while but i did write this thing for the book council s booknotes unbound site about going to vienna and reading poetry which was pretty cool you can read it here http booknotes unbound org nz helen rickerby reading new zealand poetry vienna posted by helen rickerby at 6 22 pm 2 comments 29 june 2014 does new zealand poetry have a voice and 32 statements about writing poetry by marvin bell recently harvey molloy poet and poetry editor of jaam 31 wrote a short piece about whether new zealand poetry has a national voice on awkword paper cut you can read it here scroll down to the third piece after australia and the uk http www awkwordpapercut com writers on writing national identity and writing of course it s an enormous subject to tackle especially in such a short space but i really like the four generalisations harvey makes 1 we are much less concerned with experimentation and anything remotely theoretical than some of our overseas counterparts there s a tendency towards understatement and a suspicion of all grand styles and schools of thought which stifle poets willing to take risks 2 we are increasingly aware of ourselves as located within the pacific this offers the promise for a truly diverse national literature we have just started to talk to each other 3 we are a people haunted by our past our tipuna ancestors call to us and ask to be recognised if we are from descendants of settlers or immigrants we have shadowy memories of other voices other lands there s a temporal dimension to our environments we know what it is to be haunted 4 earthquakes heavy weather intriguing landscapes all occupy our poetry there s a sense of hazard or calamity in our relationship with nature our landscapes include auckland traffic car park buildings antarctica volcanic plateaus the canterbury plains wellington suburbs they feel pretty true to me what do you think what would you add do you think this is a worthwhile conversation to be having what can we learn from this perhaps we can see our boundaries that we should then be expanding also on a whim i clicked to join a mooc massive online open course about how writers write poetry this is kind of unlike me as i m not really a writing course person i did one two day poetry course and one two day short fiction course 19 years ago and i can t see myself joining in on the workshops and forums but i m expecting the videos of different writers talking about different things pretty interesting and also it will hopefully be a good introduction to some poets i don t know anyway i ve already found the first introductory video pretty interesting poet marvin bell makes 32 statements about writing poetry you can skip the first two minutes of introduction a few things he said that struck me are if you re in a writing group especially with friends you should decide at the outset to welcome surprises when someone writes something that is experimental and outside what you d expect from them read something write something read something write something and be influenced in your writing by what you read he also said garbage in garbage out you don t learn as much from work like yours as you do from work that is unlike yours poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out posted by helen rickerby at 12 49 pm 2 comments 22 june 2014 truth or beauty poetry and biography conference one thing i m doing this year is organising with anna jackson celebrated poet and senior lecturer in english literature and angelina sbroma phd student and all around awesome person this conference about biographical poetry it will be held at victoria university of wellington from the 26th to the 28th of november i am very excited it has its genesis in me suggesting to anna seeing as she had recently finished writing a long sequence about ancient roman woman cloda metelli who is thought to be catullus s lesbia if you are familiar with catullus s poetry which i wasn t that we should do a poetry reading of biographical poems i have written a number of poems with more or less biographical elements most of which ended up in my iron spine anna said enthusiastically yes but it should be a symposium we very quickly got a bit more ambitious and now the symposium has become an academic conference well actually kind of more than an academic conference it s a conference where academics and poet practitioners will be able to get together and talk about and reflect on this shared space the poetry i am particularly excited about this because i have been developing a really strong interest in better connection between the literary community and the academic community and also in the academic community sharing more with the interested wider community in the case of this conference i hope the mixture will lead to a reflective vibrant and sparky few days we realised after hunting around a bit that while biographical poems are not uncommon there isn t a great deal written about them in that light that the field of biographic...