Tuesday Poem this week hosts 'Listening to Glenn Gould on
Orton Scar'
by UK poet Kathleen Jones, from her collection 'Not
saying goodbye at Gate 21.' Jones is also know for her biographies, most
recently Katherine Mansfield the storyteller (Penguin). This week's editor, NZ
writer Helen Lowe says:
'Kathleen Jones is a fellow Tuesday Poet so it was a
great thrill when her collection, Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21 won the Straid
Collection Award in 2010 and was subsequently published by Templar Poetry in
2011. The collection comprises a number of themes, including family
relationship— particularly those between mothers and daughters—both history and
natural history, as well as a strong sense of place. Every book of poetry will
have some standout poems and usually many more again that I will enjoy reading.
But to work as a collection, the sum of the poems must comprise a greater
whole, so that when the final line is reached one may say: yes, this is a book.
For me, Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21 met that test.'
Read more at Tuesday Poem itself, where you'll also find
30 poets from NZ, UK, Australia and the US who post poems each week by
themselves and others they admire.
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