Ex-pat New Zealand author Belinda Hollyer (UK) is the
editor and she selected Tranter's poem because she says she loves the poem's 'wit, intelligence and structure, and the way it forms a
dance with Eliot's poem'. She quotes John Tranter, 'This poem is T.S.
Eliot's Five Quartets with most of the words removed.' Here's
a taste:
Words move the Chinese violin, while
the words between the foliage
waste a factory, or a by-pass.
There is a time for the wind to break
and to shake the field-mouse with a silent
motto.
You lean against a van
and the deep village, the sultry dahlias,
wait for the early pipe.
The NZ-based Tuesday Poem blog is
getting an online reputation with poets around the world for its broad reach in
terms of poets and poems featured. The personal insights by the editor poets
each week add interest to the posts. Tranter, for example, is well known in
Australia with 20 collections of verse to his name, but little known in NZ.
Click here to find the TP site, and once you've read
Tranter, make sure you check out the sidebar where 30 Tuesday Poets post poems
by themselves and others they admire.
And the sidebar is bulging this week
with a veritable shopping bag of delicious poetry goodies...
From work by local poets like Joan Fleming,
Kay McKenzie-Cooke, Victoria Broome, Viv Plumb and Maggie Rainey-Smith to a
Czeslaw Milosz poem posted by a Boston poet and a link to a seven-page long
poem by US poet Dave Snyder. Eat your fill and then go back for more.
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