tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22088277323546123662024-03-14T09:53:15.586+13:00Some place elseKeith Westwater's writingKeith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-22232423402659693452024-03-06T14:52:00.004+13:002024-03-08T11:47:38.871+13:00A contagion of unbridled smiles<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Some days, on the 4.59 to Melling,</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">the trans clippie is slated. I know</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">what comes, what always happens.</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I wait, watch, wonder which</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">nail-paint colour will greet us,</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">whether there'll be hibiscus</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and is today pony-tail or ringlets?</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">'Let me alone' tokens – books, mags,</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">phones – topple-close like dominoes.</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Kia ORA! NICE to see you! How ARE you?</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Soft words course closer each clip,</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">lips, eyes pleated in a miles-wide smile,</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">cheeks, brow crinkled with aroha.</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Powerless to resist, each passenger</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">reciprocates, swathes the train in</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">a contagion of unbridled smiles.</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Some days, I wish every Posie Parker</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">had to have their visa clipped</p><p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">on a rainbow trip to Melling. </p><p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Keith Westwater</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">This poem was selected for publishing in the New Zealand Poetry Society's 2023 anthology, <i>white-hot heart</i>. Posie Parker is a British anti-transgender rights activist. In March 2023, she sought permission (by applying for a visa) to enter New Zealand. Following political debate, transgender protests, and a judicial review of the application, a visa to enter the country was granted.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">'Kia ora' is a Māori greeting phrase.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">'Aroha' is a Māori word for love. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are a Medium member, you can read this poem <a href="https://medium.com/@keithwestwater/a-contagion-of-unbridled-smiles-7695eb007352" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><p> </p>Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-36052180291605105892021-11-05T11:54:00.003+13:002021-11-05T12:04:07.565+13:00Home Base online book launch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_clgNo0_82M/YYRhj1zONbI/AAAAAAAAEEc/7hFpawGq3tAsiNt8RkHWIzmH1DuJfNhZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Book%2Bin%2Bbox.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_clgNo0_82M/YYRhj1zONbI/AAAAAAAAEEc/7hFpawGq3tAsiNt8RkHWIzmH1DuJfNhZgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Book%2Bin%2Bbox.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">A box of </span><span style="text-align: left;">hot-off-the-printing-press and great-looking books arrived today, just in time for the launch of</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><i style="text-align: left;">Home Base</i><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">on Tuesday. The launch is an <i>online </i>affair and is being hosted by the <i>Good Books</i> bookshop. Details are on the invitation below and the link to the launch and to pre-order books is: <a href="https://goodbookshop.nz/events/homebase " target="_blank">https://goodbookshop.nz/events/homebase </a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6EqHlIBP8i0/YYRjOpAi5YI/AAAAAAAAEFE/YwX9k-KpsXogVuycpcS6Ks2d78T_lm2_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s419/Home%2BBase%2Binvite%2Bfinal.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="419" height="285" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6EqHlIBP8i0/YYRjOpAi5YI/AAAAAAAAEFE/YwX9k-KpsXogVuycpcS6Ks2d78T_lm2_QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h285/Home%2BBase%2Binvite%2Bfinal.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">If you can 'attend' the launch, I look forward to catching up with you at a distance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Best</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Keith</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-49514284246159180952021-06-14T16:39:00.008+12:002021-06-20T14:38:13.027+12:00New book coming up<h1 style="text-align: left;">Home Base</h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u8BiPgCTmHY/YMbY_0xxLOI/AAAAAAAADkQ/kiUmihzKqFI7xt33srAn4RS0SnY7DDlXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/p2%2BRuapehu%252C%2Betc.%252C%2B%252B%2BCamp.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u8BiPgCTmHY/YMbY_0xxLOI/AAAAAAAADkQ/kiUmihzKqFI7xt33srAn4RS0SnY7DDlXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/p2%2BRuapehu%252C%2Betc.%252C%2B%252B%2BCamp.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you have been visiting this now revamped site in the hope of a new post, then you have struck it lucky. For the last two years or more I have been putting together a new book - <i>Home Base</i>. <span lang="mi-NZ">I</span><span lang="mi-NZ">t</span><span lang="mi-NZ"> is a memoir of the three years I spent as a New Zealand Army Regular Force Cadet, living in barracks at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiouru_Military_Camp" target="_blank">Waiōuru military camp</a>. The work is a sequel to the highly rated <i><a href="https://www.keithwestwater.com/p/no-one-home.html" target="_blank">No One Home</a></i> (<a href="https://makaropress.co.nz" target="_blank">Mākaro Press</a>, 2018), which records my early and somewhat chaotic boyhood, and ends at the point I board the Auckland to Wellington overnight express in early January 1964 on the way to my boy-soldier life. I was 15, which at the time, was the youngest age one could join the Army. 140 other recruits of a similar age entered camp at the same time.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="mi-NZ">The work provides a</span> personal snap-shot of the years 1964 - 1966 and distils the essence of what life was generally like for each annual intake of teenage boys who flowed through the <a href="https://www.rfcadet.org.nz" target="_blank">Regular Force Cadet School</a> from 1948 - 1991. Like <i>No One Home, Home Base</i> uses more than text to portray memories of time, people and place. Employing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage" target="_blank">bricolage</a> approach, the work tells its story through short prose, poems, photos, sketches, maps, diary excerpts, and images of contemporary artefacts, memorabilia, and documents.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="mi-NZ">Home Base </span></i><span lang="mi-NZ">chronologically unfolds my Cadet years, but is more thematically structured than </span><i>No One Home</i><span lang="mi-NZ">. Themes include arrival, learning the ropes, kit and caboodle, daily routine, marching and parading, minders and carers, leave and time-out, and aspects of barrack life. Vivid and sometimes humorous vignettes are used to gradually lay bare my army home and its harsh physical and social environment. Ever present are the volcanoes that form Waiōuru’s backyard, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ruapehu" target="_blank">Ruapehu</a> in particular writ large in the lives of the cadets. Also </span>woven through the memoir’s narrative is the story of how my individual post-cadet future came to be shaped and secured through the interest and actions of an Army benefactor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="mi-NZ"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><i>Home Base</i> will appeal to those who read life-stories to learn about and be reminded of times before and to an audience who enjoys reading about the New Zealand Army's past. It will also interest those who have served (or who are still serving) in the military in some capacity. Rather than being solely an account of one person’s memories of a particular life-period, <i>Home </i><i>Base</i> will pique the reader’s curiosity and attention through the variety of literary and graphic forms that it employs and by revealing the uniqueness of a place in New Zealand most people only experience while passing through it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="mi-NZ"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="mi-NZ"><span style="font-family: arial;">The book is due for publication by <a href="https://thecubapress.nz" target="_blank">The Cuba Press</a> (<a href="https://thespinoff.co.nz/author/mary-mccallum/" target="_blank">Mary McCallum</a>) in October 2021. B</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">efore then,</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> I'll advise when and where book launches will be and post some more extracts.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Here is a taster from <i>Home Base</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p class="Body1" style="border: none; font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Parade states</span></span></b></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We were marched on and marched off</span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We were marched in and marched out</span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We were dressed up and dressed down</span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We picked up our dressing and lost it again</span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We marched paces forward or paces back</span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We stood at ease and stood easy </span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We stood to attention and stood around</span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We braced ourselves and paced ourselves</span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We numbered from the right but not the left</span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We gave eyes right and eyes left</span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We advanced in review order</span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We presented arms</span></span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">We hurried up and waited</span></span></div></blockquote><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">Photo:<i> </i><span lang="EN-US" style="border: none; font-style: italic;">Aerial view overlooking Waiouru Military Camp and Mount Ruapehu. 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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I caught this morning morning's minion, king- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of; the mastery of the thing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-5563791761807563542018-08-28T07:49:00.000+12:002018-08-28T07:49:43.891+12:00If you like a story on a page, try BonsaiBonsai launches in Christchurch on Sunday 2 September and in other places as listed below:<br />
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Come along to the Wellington Library at 1.00 pm today, 24 August to hear some poets do their thing!</div>
<br />Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-45763213349814044202018-08-19T11:15:00.001+12:002018-08-19T11:15:52.801+12:00NZ National Poetry Day 24 August 2018<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Poetry Day will be celebrated across New Zealand on Friday 24 August with public poetry readings and other events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be joining a number of other poets at 1.00 pm at the Wellington Library where we will doing a sort of 'tag team' set of readings. Come along and be entertained. More details below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The launch of No One Home is all lined up - I would love to see you there if you can make it!</span>Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-82661797513558067192018-03-19T18:24:00.001+13:002018-03-19T19:09:36.617+13:00Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sea is calm to-night.<br />The tide is full, the moon lies fair<br /> Upon the straits; - on the French coast the light<br /> Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,<br /> Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.<br /> Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!<br /> Only, from the long line of spray<br /> Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land,<br /> Listen! you hear the grating roar<br /> Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,<br /> At their return, up the high strand,<br /> Begin, and cease, and then again begin,<br /> With tremulous cadence slow, and bring<br /> The eternal note of sadness in.<br /> <br /> Sophocles long ago<br /> Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought<br /> Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow<br /> Of human misery; we<br /> Find also in the sound a thought,<br /> Hearing it by this distant northern sea.<br /> <br /> The Sea of Faith<br /> Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore<br /> Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.<br /> But now I only hear<br /> Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,<br /> Retreating, to the breath<br /> Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear<br /> And naked shingles of the world.<br /> <br /> Ah, love, let us be true<br /> To one another! for the world, which seems<br /> To lie before us like a land of dreams,<br /> So various, so beautiful, so new,<br /> Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,<br /> Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;<br /> And we are here as on a darkling plain<br /> Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,<br /> Where ignorant armies clash by night.<br /><br /><br /></span><br />
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Every now and then I reach back to a poem which inspires me. Dover Beach is one of these. Its haunting lyrics link sounds of tide and sea from an English beach scene on a moonlit night to a crisis of faith which Matthew Arnold was experiencing at the time. There are more than one or two lines that are still quoted today, though it was written in 1851. Matthew Arnold was a son of Thomas Arnold, who while headmaster of Rugby School, is credited with having a lasting effect on the development of public school education in England. (I bet you thought I was also going to say something about a certain oval ball game’s birthplace.)</div>
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News of No One Home’s book launch - it is set for Thursday 26 April at Unity Books, Wellington from 6.00 - 7.30 pm. A Facebook event page will be set up soon (where you can indicate whether you are coming) and email invitations will also be sent out.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I only went the once –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> an expat's visit,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">claiming a rite of passage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I thought was owed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nineteen sixty four, sixteen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> kitted out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in all the right gear –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> stove-pipe trou,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">winkle pickers, car coat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (collar up), white shirt,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">thin black tie, Brylcreem</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Old Spice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hoping a girl from my past</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> remembered me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">liked me enough to dance –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> no such luck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I joined the bunch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of wallflower boys,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">caught up on goings-on –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> who was seeing whom,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">watched the rock'n roll</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> extroverts perform,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">realised my chances</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of emulating them</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While I was sourcing images for ‘No One
Home’, I reconnected with Jenny Clark – we were classmates at primary and
intermediate school. Jenny is now a mainstay of the Papatoetoe Historical
Society, who provided me with images of the old St Georges Anglican church and the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the same time, the Historical Society was putting together a display of memorabilia relevant to the Papatoetoe Town Hall, which is celebrating its centenary. I wrote the 'Town Hall Dance' poem for inclusion in the display, which the Society then photographed and produced a set of four postcards from – see the post card with the poem in it below. if you would like to order a pack (or more) of the postcards at $5 a pack, contact Jenny at jennya.clark@xtra.co.nz </span><br />
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<span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">There’s nothing quite like seeing a collection of
poetry in its new-born published glory. What were once promising images and
text on screen can now be cradled carefully, cooed over, and have its cover and
pages, if not quite caressed, at least given ‘Oh, wow!’ compliments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">This happened last week for me with the delivery of my
latest work, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No One Home </i>– <a href="http://www.keithwestwater.com/">see sidebar</a> – from the printer (Wakefields Digital) to the publisher (<a href="http://makaropress.co.nz/">Mākaro Press</a>)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Once the distributors have had a chance to get the book
‘out there’ over the next two or three weeks, we will have a proper christening.
At the moment this is looking like it will be in the second week of April, but
I will post the details as soon as they firm up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-35408112299291113622018-02-24T19:27:00.001+13:002018-04-14T11:21:27.038+12:00Learning to rideNot long after my complaints<br />
about the long walk to school<br />
<br />
how everyone had one<br />
so why couldn't I<br />
<br />
you came home one night<br />
with a two-wheeler bike -<br />
<br />
a Monarch (boy's, second-hand)<br />
front handbrake, rear pedal -<br />
<br />
no bell, chain-guard or gears.<br />
You bought it, no doubt<br />
<br />
off a 'for sale' ad in the local rag<br />
painted it fire-engine red<br />
<br />
showed me how to use the pump<br />
oil the chain, crank and hubs<br />
<br />
told me to level the pedals<br />
before I stood on one<br />
<br />
straddled the cross bar<br />
sat on the black saddle seat<br />
<br />
while you palmed my back<br />
steadied the handle bars<br />
<br />
said to push with my feet -<br />
one then the other - coaxed me<br />
<br />
to steer straight, keep upright<br />
as we practised setting off.<br />
<br />
When I came a cropper<br />
skinned my arms or knees<br />
<br />
you painted them orange<br />
set me up for another go<br />
<br />
until I was able to wobble solo<br />
up and down life's street.<br />
<br />
If only that were so.<br />
<br />
<br />
This is another boyhood memoir poem from <i>No One Home</i> (which went to the printers late last week, so birth is imminent). I will keep you up to date with when the book is available and when and where it will be launched.<br />
<br />
I previously posted on this blog versions of two other poems which are in the collection. They are <a href="http://www.keithwestwater.com/2015/08/three-memoir-haiku.html"><i>Three Memoir Haiku</i> </a>and <i><a href="http://www.keithwestwater.com/2015/07/tuesday-poem-sticks-trees.html">Sticks, trees</a>.</i><br />
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Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-24953980626458476052018-02-18T15:59:00.001+13:002018-02-18T21:19:04.663+13:00Beaches<div class="BodyA">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">races in sacks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">egg-and-spoon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">three legs made from four.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mangawhai.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">A badjelly sand dune<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">that ate kids alive –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">the pipis we dug at low tide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">a Tilley lamp, Primus <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">and tent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">they
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">To find what I lost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">when I had –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">a bucket</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">and spade.</span></div>
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This poem forms part of my next collection, <i>No One Home</i> (Mākaro Press), a boyhood memoir in poems and letters. </div>
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Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-52465201707286476192018-02-11T11:28:00.001+13:002018-02-11T17:57:52.778+13:00The new Minister's brief to the Head of Department<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No
leaping out</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from
behind hidden agendas,</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">no lining
lame ducks up</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for media
pot shots,</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">no
scaring the crap out of me</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with
revelations or defamations</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and
definitely no defecations</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in my
corner.</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hire the
best spin doctor going -</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">one that
will guild</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">your OIA
gnome droppings</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so they
look like</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">unvarnished
truth lollies.</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Send your
top policy wonk</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to work
in my office -</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">they can
rewrite</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">your
dreary drivel</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to better
reflect</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what I
told you to say</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the
first place.</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Absolutely
NO surprises</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or I will
make sure you slide down</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the gnome
stud book</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">faster
than Jack abseiled</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the
beanstalk when the giant</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">started
fee-fi-fo-ing.</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's
all for now -</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">drop by
next week</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and brief
me on the cock-ups</span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you've
had to cover up.</span></span></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; margin: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div lang="en-AU" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; margin: 0in;">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-ansi-language: #0481; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">My apologies to anyone who has visited this blog
during the last 18 months in the hope of finding a new post. I took a long break
that was neither planned nor caused by physical ailment, nor did it result from
anything as mundane as writer’s block – in fact, I have put together another
collection of writing over that time. More about that in the next post (which I
promise will follow soon after this one).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-ansi-language: #0481; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">During the ‘between posts’ interregnum, I also had a
poem published in an anthology of political poetry, ‘<a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/press/books/otago642260.html">Manifesto Aotearoa: 101political poems</a>’ (Otago University Press, Edited by Philip Temple and Emma Neale,
2017). The poem was ‘The Head of Department’s Prayer on a change of Government’.
I wrote it several years ago and only sent it to the anthology to make up my
submission’s numbers. The poem is a parody on the Lord’s Prayer and my thinking
was that such writing is a bit naff these days, but what did I know. I had also
previously posted it on this blog <a href="http://www.keithwestwater.com/2012/11/">here</a>, but if you like political poetry, I
strongly recommend you take a look at Manifesto Aotearoa, available online at
<a href="http://unitybooks.nz/">Unity Books</a> and other good booksellers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="mi-NZ" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-ansi-language: #0481; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The reception the Head of Department poem received was
very positive, so I have decided to develop a series of poems based on the
departmental and political context that the Head of Department works in. The
poem above is one of these. I will post more as they take shape. (An 'OIA' is an Official Information Act request, which anybody can submit to a department in order to gain access to specific information.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-53881746519484461732016-08-04T07:54:00.000+12:002016-08-05T07:38:29.360+12:00Cartoon briefs - there was an old woman who lived in a shoe<br />
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<li>A large octopus with the words "Housing Crisis" written on its body has one arm wrapped around John Key, Bill English, Nick Smith, Stephen Joyce and Paula Bennett. Bill's speech bubble says "Just wait, it has to let go eventually." The others have expressions ranging from terror to astonishment on their faces. The arm wrapped around the cabinet ministers has "political fallout" written on it. The remaining flailing arms each have one of the following sets of words on them: homelessness, first home ownership, street beggars, garage dwellers, slum landlords, unhealthy houses, land bankers.</li>
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<li>The cartoon is divided in two diagonally. In the bottom left, there is a multi-level building with a sign on it - "Housing Crisis Casino". Glitter, fireworks, and stars surround the top of the building. On the ground outside, a small group of people with bows are firing arrows at the top storey. The words "Government Measures to Stop Crisis" are written above four or five arrows in flight. In the top right half of the cartoon, a group of cigar-smoking, opulently-dressed gamblers are sitting around a card table in a room. The dealer has dealt four cards - the words on the back of each card read: buy and hold, buy and do-up, buy and on-sell, buy and build, joker. A window behind the card-players has on its outside an arrow with a sucker head stuck to the glass and the word "thud" above it. The dealer is saying "Don't worry, they're not serious".</li>
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<li>A group of four cabinet ministers wearing casual clothing is sitting around a table. They are wearing name tags - John, Bill, Nick, Paula. A sign on a door to the room reads "Potty Shed Retreat - Ideas Room". There is a whiteboard behind the table with the heading "Strategies for fixing the housing crisis". There is no other writing on the whiteboard. At the head of the table sits a woman wearing the name tag "Facilitator". A newspaper with the heading "WINZ implicated in garage housing scheme" lies on the table. The facilitator's speech bubble says "So Paula, this was your idea?". Bill is thinking "That's clever - it frees up cars for sleeping in". Nick's thought bubble reads "What about storage container houses?" John's thought bubble has a flag with a garage on it.</li>
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Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-64737076031860979882016-03-31T21:23:00.001+13:002016-04-01T07:34:03.210+13:00Cartoon briefs - hey diddle diddle<ul>
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<li>John Key, with a perplexed look on his face, and dressed in a frock and wearing rubber gloves, is standing in a kitchen with a large, half-empty plastic milk bottle in one hand. The milk bottle has a hole in one corner and is leaking a stream of milk onto the floor. An assortment of burnt cakes, spilt ingredients and torn up recipes litter the bench and floor. In his other hand, he is holding open a book. The title of the book is "NZ Economy Cookbook (Chinese Edition)".</li>
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<li>The cartoon is divided in two diagonally. In the top left, a thin, black-singleted cow-cockey with his back to us is walking out a farm gate. He is carrying a suitcase with a label which says "Fonterra's Get <strike>Rich</strike> Poor Quickly Dairy Farm Package". A fat bankster dressed in a waist-coated suit is standing by the gate grinning from ear to ear. A "Farm Certificate of Title" document protrudes from his pocket. In the bottom right half of the cartoon, Bill English is speaking on the phone - "Don't worry John, they'll still vote for us." A book with the title "Great Political Con Tricks" sits on a coffee table next to Bill. </li>
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<li>A group of four cabinet ministers wearing casual clothing is sitting around a table. They are wearing name tags - John, Bill, Stephen, Murray. A sign on a door to the room reads "<strike>Green</strike> Brown Fields Retreat - Ideas Room". There is a whiteboard behind the table with the heading "Strategies for fixing the dairy downturn". There is no other writing on the whiteboard. At the head of the table sits a woman wearing the name tag "Paula Rebstock - Facilitator". A newspaper with the heading "Tourism overtakes Dairy in export earnings" lies on the table. Paula's speech bubble says "No Stephen, we can't make every tourist buy a can of milk powder as an entry tax". Murray's thought bubble reads "How about a sheep farm then?" Bill is thinking "We should make it 2 cans". John's thought bubble has a flag with a cow on it. Stephen looks as though he is sulking.</li>
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<br />Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-23656872289099355842016-02-10T21:38:00.001+13:002016-02-10T21:38:53.659+13:00Guest Poet at the Fringe, Sunday 21 FebruaryI will be reading from my latest collection, Felt Intensity, on Sunday 21 February. Come if you can. Location and other details are in this poster:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alas, Tuesday Poem as we knew is no more. The <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.co.nz/">last post</a> was played on the blog on 15 December last year</span>, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the founders of the blog - I am not sure whether it was Mary McCallum or Claire Beynon, wrote in the farewell post that "Something almost always follows a full stop". I liked this so much, I wrote the poem above.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span>Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-16975376328886964562015-11-10T00:01:00.000+13:002015-11-11T21:16:19.435+13:00Tuesday Poem: Lament of a couch revolutionaryYou are the new dangerous class, it is said.<br />
Bah, you are whining pups<br />
sucking on the paps of Mother Consumer.<br />
You have the vision of a myopic meerkat,<br />
balls of a gelded goat, solidarity of a cess pit.<br />
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‘Occupy!’ you cry. Que?<br />
If that’s your mantra, you are truly clueless.<br />
Where is your Manifesto,<br />
your strategy for the long march,<br />
your handbook of hand-to-hand?<br />
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Where are your precariat peons, your shirtless,<br />
your barefoot, your les misérables?<br />
Making shirts and shoes in sweat shops,<br />
planting Monsanto’s seedless plants,<br />
paying the mortgage, that’s where.<br />
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You picket buildings, but fail to spike the spokes<br />
of those who peddle in your penury –<br />
the poverty-trap profiteers,<br />
the political-party pocket-liners,<br />
the income-gap insouciants,<br />
the bloated banksters and flash boys,<br />
the obscene salary-packaged CEOs.<br />
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So, mobilise your brigades of bloggers,
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your troops of tweeters, your para-hackers,<br />
your financial system saboteurs.
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Storm the trust funds and slush funds
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of the feckless, taxless, cartel carpetbaggers<br />
and their coat-tailers and gravy-boaters.<br />
Siphon their vaults, hack their accounts,<br />
unemploy them, evacuate their credit cards,<br />
benefact their bonuses, perforate their perks,<br />
axe their automatic cost-of-living adjusted,<br />
non performance-related pay rises.
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Sentence them to twenty year’s detention<br />
in a slum landlord rental
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doing crew work (plus two other jobs)
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on a zero hours contract
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all for the minimum pittance.<br />
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It’s time to sound the clarion,<br />
beat your brass razoo cymbals,<br />
exact your pound of carrion!<br />
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This poem is from my just released new collection, <b>Felt intensity</b> (<a href="http://www.makaropress.co.nz/submarine-books/felt-intensity-by-keith-westwater/">Submarine poetry</a>).<br />
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Felt intensity is being launched by <a href="http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/hawkendinah.html">Dinah Hawken</a> at the <a href="http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/PoetryConference2015">New Zealand Poetry Society's Conference</a> on Sunday 15 November (details are on the immediate past post).<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Visit <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">Tuesday Poem</a> for more great poetry. This week features the poem That girl, by Heidi North-Bailey from her first collection <b>Possibility of flight</b>, which is being launched at the same time as Felt intensity.</span>Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-31855890264743180172015-10-29T20:36:00.001+13:002015-10-29T20:39:19.559+13:00Book Launch Invitation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-48233889641481975272015-09-20T21:18:00.001+12:002015-09-20T21:18:53.573+12:00IP Spring Poetry Season 2015: Wellington, 30 September, 6pm, Wellington Central Library<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UhdVytfzgus/VfaK54jtZGI/AAAAAAAABE4/ruqWdOTLT9s/s1600/Wellington_poster_W.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UhdVytfzgus/VfaK54jtZGI/AAAAAAAABE4/ruqWdOTLT9s/s400/Wellington_poster_W.jpg" width="282" /></a>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">Presenting an evening of poetry readings hosted by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K8L3iH737Y">Dr David Reiter</a> of <a href="http://www.ipoz.biz/">Interactive Publications</a> (Brisbane) with Auckland poet <a href="http://printablereality.com/jeremy-roberts/">Jeremy Roberts</a> and featuring Wellington poets published by IP: <a href="http://www.markpirie.com/">Mark Pirie</a>, <a href="http://www.keithwestwater.com/">Keith Westwater</a> and Tim Jones.<br /><br />
You can join the Facebook event here: </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1633555860235889/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1633555860235889/</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">Watch out for events in other centres too - full schedule is:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">28 September: Poetry Live, Auckland, Thirsty Dog Café, 469 Karangahape Rd, 8:30pm</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">30 September: Wellington Library, 65 Victoria Street, 6pm</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">1 October: Lyttleton, Freemans Dining Room, 47 London Street, 7pm, with <a href="http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/pillaysugu.html">Sugu Pillay</a> and <a href="http://www.karenzelas.com/">Karen Zelas</a>.</span>Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-57002598741423427112015-08-25T07:50:00.000+12:002015-08-25T07:50:22.481+12:00Three Memoir Haiku<b>Living with addiction</b><br />
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Waiting for ever<br />
outside a pub -<br />
Dad is booking his bets<br />
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<b>Masons Avenue, Hamilton</b><br />
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Green enamel gas oven<br />
tick-tocking Grandfather clock -<br />
our grandparents' house<br />
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<b>Out of the blue</b><br />
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A new home<br />
with Aunty Jo -<br />
State House, Papatoetoe.<br />
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The title says it all. <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Visit <a href="http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">Tuesday Poem</a> for more great poetry.</span></div>
Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2208827732354612366.post-31583335607285509252015-08-21T20:19:00.000+12:002015-08-21T20:19:36.764+12:00National Poetry Day, Friday 28 August: Poets of Place: Landscape Poetry - with Open Mic in Lower HuttThere are National Poetry Day events all over New Zealand on Friday 28 August, and I'll be taking part in one in Lower Hutt. There is a great line-up of poets plus an open mic - I hope you can make it along. Here are the event details:<br />
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Poems of Place: Landscape Poetry and Open Mic<br />
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Where: St Marks Complex, 58 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt, opposite the Lower Hutt Library<br />
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When: Friday 28 August, 7.30 - 9.30 pm.<br />
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Admission: Free. Open to all ages. Sign up for the open mic on the night.<br />
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We live in a land of hills, river and sea. We experience wild changes in our weather and our remoteness affects who we are as a people in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Much of our literature and poetry reflects our unique landscape.<br />
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Come and hear writers reading their landscape poetry and reflecting on what this means for them.<br />
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Featuring Anne Powell - Kerry Hines - Keith Westwater - Tim Jones - Keith Johnson - Adrienne Jansen - Kerry Popplewell - Harvey Molloy<br />
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Followed by Open Mic - Everyone is welcome.<br />
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There is a Facebook page for this event at: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/667972266672138/">https://www.facebook.com/events/667972266672138/</a><br />
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Contact: Viv Ball for further information:<br />
<a href="mailto:viviennemayball@gmail.com">viviennemayball@gmail.com</a>, ph 027435-8543, 5895-868Keith Westwaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03833695634102433794noreply@blogger.com0