School’s Out Autumn leaves; ain’t no summer up here, I’m crawling along the roof school’s out and so are the lights. Not much of a weekend – usual entertainment: a DVD a game and a piss-up; instead I’m up here. The night-chill stiffens my cheek. I prise off the copper right beside the High Voltage… Continue reading Mark Pirie
Author: Mark Pirie
(Wellington, NZ) is an internationally published New Zealand poet, editor, and critic. He co-founded JAAM (Just Another Art Movement) literary magazine from 1995-2005 in Wellington and currently edits the chapbook journal, broadsheet: new new zealand poetry. He is the managing editor/publisher for the small press HeadworX. Many collections of his poetry have appeared (including Gallery, Salt, UK, 2003) and he has edited anthologies, including The NeXt Wave (Gen X New Zealand writing, 1998) and A Tingling Catch: A Century of New Zealand Cricket Poems 1864-2009 (2010). He currently co-organizes the Poetry Archive of New Zealand Aotearoa (PANZA), with Niel Wright and Michael O'Leary.