Happy Montana Poetry Day New Zealand
Posted 24 July 2009 // Helen Rickerby
Montana Poetry Day
Today is New Zealand’s annual poetry day. In celebration I wanted to share a couple of my favourite poems on Te Ara.
In our Wanganui entry you can read one of James K. Baxter’s wonderful Jerusalem Sonnets: ‘Poem for Colin–25‘, in which he personifies the Whanganui River as a taniwha.
And in our entry on introduced land birds you can read Denis Glover’s wonderful tragedy in poetic form, ‘The magpies‘. And you no longer have to imagine the ‘quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle’ of the magpies – it’s accompanied by a sound file of magpies quardle oodle ardle wardle doodling.
There’s lots of poetry-related events going on today around the country – for more information visit NZLive.com, or the official Montana Poetry Day site.
Say hooray for
Poetry day
Just once a year
doth it appear
Mrs Aldrin
20 July 1969
went to the hives
to look for him
the silence of the bees
no Buzz