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Mark Pirie

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Mark Pirie (born 30 April 1974) is a New Zealand poet, writer, literary critic, anthologist, publisher, and editor. He is best known for his Generation X New Zealand anthology The NeXt Wave, which included an 8,000-word introduction (1998),[1] the literary journals JAAM (Just Another Art Movement) and broadsheet, a book cover photo series of tributes to famous rock albums,[2] and the small press HeadworX Publishers in Wellington, New Zealand.

Life

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Pirie spent part of his childhood in San Francisco, 1977-1980, where he attended Town School for Boys.[3]

Pirie was educated at Wadestown School, Wellington College, and Victoria University of Wellington, where he completed a BA (Hons). He studied Theatre and Film and English.

His MA thesis at the University of Otago was on the New Zealand poet and editor Louis Johnson, a writer who shares similarities with Pirie's work.[4]

He spent his career as an editor in the public service in Wellington, New Zealand.

He helps co-organise the Poetry Archive of New Zealand Aotearoa since 2010, with Michael O'Leary (writer) and Dr Niel Wright and edits the newsletter.[5]

His grandfather Tom Lawn was a rugby player and coach. He represented Canterbury B in 1925 and played for the College Rifles RFC in Auckland 1926-1929 and coached North Shore Rugby Football Club in 1938 with All Black Bert Cooke (rugby).[6]

Publications

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Pirie has written or published over 100 titles listed in the National Library of New Zealand. Many are published under his own imprints HeadworX Publishers and The Night Press, Wellington or through the Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop in Paekākāriki.[7]

The main influences on his literary development were listening to popular music, blues and jazz at an early age. His poetry draws on film, music and pop culture elements.[8] His work also covers sports like rugby, netball, football and cricket.

Pirie's own published works include numerous collections or anthologies of poetry (one of them being a hand-made book The Bet: Poems in Memory of Jim Morrison - American Poet) and a novel in verse, TOM (2009).[9]

Bill Sewell and Lauris Edmond included him in Essential New Zealand Poems, 2001.[10]

In 2003, his selected poems, Gallery, was commissioned by Australian poet John Kinsella and published in England by Salt Publishing.[11]

He was invited to contribute to the international anthology Che in Verse, a book of poetry on Che Guevara.[12]

In 2008, he was included in the anthology New New Zealand Poets in Performance.[13]

The anthology Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand he co-edited with Tim Jones (writer) won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collected Work in 2010.

Ron Palenski included Pirie as a rugby poet in the anthology Touchlines, 2013.[14]

In 2014, Pirie appeared in Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page.[15]

Bareknuckle Books, Australia, recognised Pirie as "one of the most important New Zealand poets and editors of his generation" in the Bareknuckle Poets Pocket Series, edited by Brentley Frazer, 2016.[16]

He was recognised as a cricket poet in The Cricket Society News Bulletin in England edited by John Symons and in Catching the Light: A New Anthology of Cricket Poetry.[17]

Publications by Mark Pirie

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A selection of Mark Pirie’s books

Anthologies

  • New Zealand Writing: The NeXt Wave, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1998.
  • Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, with Tim Jones, IP, Brisbane, Australia, 2009.
  • The Earl is in…: 25 Years of the Earl of Seacliff, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Paekakariki, New Zealand, 2009.
  • Rail Poems of New Zealand Aotearoa, Poetry Archive of New Zealand Aotearoa, Wellington, New Zealand, 2010
  • 'A Tingling Catch': A Century of New Zealand Cricket Poems 1864-2009, HeadworX, Wellington, New Zealand, 2010.
  • Boots: A Selection of Football Poetry 1890-2017, HeadworX, Wellington, New Zealand, 2017.

As editor

  • The Pop Artist's Garland: Selected Poems 1952-2009 by F W N Wright, HeadworX, Wellington, 2010.
  • King Willow: Selected Poems by Robert J Pope, HeadworX: Wellington, New Zealand, 2012.

Poetry

  • Shoot, Sudden Valley Press, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1999.
  • No Joke, Sudden Valley Press, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2001.
  • The Blues, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Paekakariki, New Zealand, 2001.
  • Dumber: Poems, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Paekakariki, New Zealand, 2003.
  • Gallery: A Selection, foreword by Harry Ricketts, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2003.
  • Poems for Poets: Dedications and Elegies, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Paekakariki, New Zealand, 2004.
  • London Notebook, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Paekakariki, New Zealand, 2005.
  • Mahones: Four Poets, with Bill Dacker, Michael O'Leary and Iain Sharp, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Paekakariki, New Zealand, 2005.
  • Sounds of Sonnets, with Michael O'Leary, HeadworX Publishers, Wellington, New Zealand, 2006.
  • TOM: A Novel in Verse, Poets Group, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2009.
  • Thinking Cap: A Book of Epigrams, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Paekakariki, New Zealand, 2011.
  • Old Hat: A Book of Triolets, Wellington, HeadworX, New Zealand, 2012.
  • 12 Netball Poems, Wellington, The Night Press, New Zealand, 2015.
  • Rock and Roll: Selected Poems in Five Sets, Bareknuckle Books, Queensland, Australia, 2016.
  • Sidelights: Rugby Poems, foreword by Ron Palenski, Wellington, HeadworX, New Zealand, 2017.
  • Slips: Cricket Poems, foreword by John Symons (The Cricket Society), Wellington, HeadworX, New Zealand, 2021.
  • Bono Mato Poeia: Rock Poems and Drawings, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Paekakariki, New Zealand, 2021.

Fiction

  • Swing and Other Stories, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Paekakariki, New Zealand, 2002.

Biography

  • Tom Lawn: Mystery Forward: A Life in Business and Rugby, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Paekakariki, New Zealand, 2018.

Art Book

  • Folk Punk: Selected Photos, Artworks and Drawings 1985-2020, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Paekakariki, New Zealand, 2020.

References

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  1. ↑ Charles Briffa, World Literature Today, Summer 1999, USA, pp. 604-605; Sarah Quigley, 'Checking out Gen X', New Zealand Books, vol. 8, no. 5, December 1998, pp. 16-17; Lydia Wevers, 'Talking about GenX', in Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English edited by Jacqueline Bardolph, Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2001, pp. 379-387; Michelle Cruickshank, 'Write the Wave', Pavement, April/May 1998, p. 42 & Andrew Johnston, 'Mark Pirie's Excellent Adventure', Sport 21, Spring 1998
  2. ↑ Guy Somerset, 'Cover artists', Dominion Post, 5 December 2007, p. E3
  3. ↑ See https://www.markpirie.com/non-fiction/understanding-mark-piries-literary-talent/
  4. ↑ F. W. Nielsen Wright, Mark Pirie as Romantic Satirist, Cultural and Political Books, Wellington, 2003.
  5. ↑ Poetry Notes https://poetryarchivenz.wordpress.com/newsletters/
  6. ↑ Mark Pirie, Tom Lawn: Mystery Forward: A Life in Business and Rugby, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Paekakariki, 2018.
  7. ↑ F. W. Nielsen Wright,Supplementary Bibliography to Mark Pirie as Author, Publisher, Editor, Cultural and Political Booklets, Wellington, 2010.
  8. ↑ Pat Prime, 'An Interview with Mark Pirie', Stylus Online Poetry Journal, Australia, 2003, and in Takahe 50 (Summer 2004) pp. 57–60.
  9. ↑ Siobhan Harvey, Review of TOM: A Novel in Verse, Takahe 69 (2009), p. 45. Mark Pirie in The Verse Novel in Australia and New Zealand by Linda Weste, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2021, pp. 179-183.
  10. ↑ Bill Sewell and Lauris Edmond (eds.), Essential New Zealand Poems, Godwit/Random House, 2001.
  11. ↑ Iain Sharp, 'Whizz kid', Sunday Star-Times, 7 December 2003. p. 31.
  12. ↑ Gavin O'Toole and Georgina Jiminez (eds.), Che in Verse, Aflame Books, UK, 2007.
  13. ↑ Jan Kemp & Jack Ross (eds.), New New Zealand Poets in Performance, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2008, includes CD sound recording of Mark Pirie.
  14. ↑ Ron Palenski (ed.), Touchlines: An Anthology of Rugby Poetry, NZ Sports Hall of Fame, 2013.
  15. ↑ Siobhan Harvey, James Norcliffe and Harry Ricketts (eds.),Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page, Godwit/Random House, 2014.
  16. ↑ Rock and Roll: Selected Poems in Five Sets, Bareknuckle Books, West End, Queensland, Australia, 2016. Jeremy Roberts review of Rock and Roll in Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018, pp. 253-256. Carolyn McCurdie review of Rock and Roll in Takahe 92, April 2018.
  17. ↑ Nicholas Hogg and Tim Beard (eds.), Catching the Light: A New Anthology of Cricket Poetry, Fairfield Books, UK, 2026.
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  • Mark Pirie's personal website
  • New Zealand Book Council Profile
  • HeadworX Publishers website
  • Poetry Archive of New Zealand Aotearoa
  • Mark Pirie's full bibliography

For a complete listing of Mark Pirie's works, see the online catalogue of the National Library of New Zealand

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