ANGELS
One of my favorite photos: The day after it was taken, snow fell in The Valley. The image sort of sums up what media do worldwide: angels of news.
Sometimes angels come to you: Unexpectedly. Do we have eyes to see them, when they do? (more…)
A WRITER’S LIFE
Writing in a lifetime: “Obviously an immensely important find” is lucky to happen once in a writer’s lifetime. More than once, makes a literary darling.
A writer’s best work is often hidden and enshrined on the pages of their imagination, emotional palate, life experiences and heart’s pages.
Courage to reveal insights are worn of spirit on the woven threads of our mortality’s skin, that makes us all human.
A good story is universal. Human enough for most to be able to relate to it. Thus a writer’s life is the world’s, constantly being shaped and written. (more…)
DAREN KAMALI’S COCONUT ISLANDS PROSE
Coconut tree,
its flesh scraped and squeezed
into a dish of vakalolo fish.
Coconut tree
in the middle of the sea,
swaying to the rhythm
of the island sea breeze.
all wrapped in rourou leaves
placed in lovo pits to make palusami.
Into the vast ocean
a coconut swam
floating from island to island
replanting itself on every isle.
In Niue's shell, serves kava for us.
Leaves of sasa brooms, woven mats
on clay floors, its juice quench's
thirst, breaking waves under
the tropical sun.
–poetic prose words: dk.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.1.13~
CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SYSTEM SKYLINE GARDEN SALAD
On the twelfth wing platform of the secured rooftop garden circle, David strolled through the aisle between the rows of lush bountiful green taking what he needed. He altered the the nutrient blends that feed into the garden's atmos-derived mist jets once a week, according to his body's shifting eruthrocyte and leukocytes needs. Mesculin, garlic chives and baby kamo kamo took his fancy today. The sky's light in the setting sun calmed the circadian rhythm system of the circus called his nerves from the day. (more…)
POETIC FISH & GEEKING IT – 22.1.13
Ten posts being read are:
The Geek Side:
our vibe: Joy’s strength
poetics: One sun rose on us today, kindled one light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story told moving behind windows. apples, limes, and oranges teeming to save lives, equations to solve, history to question, atoms imagined, many prayers, (more…)
POEM: THE LAND BETWEEN MY TOES
poem:
its the difference between
being
and owning
surging
and standing
living
and landing
she said
she’d read
he said
have
not am
I keep
the am
anyway
–Salina Tusitala Marsh
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 21.1.13~
NEW WRITER LESLEY RAIN IS SO TALENTED
Q. Do all Maori write as much as you do?
A. Probably not. I tend to cut and paste more than write. Those writers who do write original songs, stories, poetry, novels, websites, news are pretty amazing. Maori are quite creative clever when able. A new writer, Lesley Rain is a twenty-something Maori writer. She’s pretty talented with Maori prose in English.
[Photo: Facebook].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 21.1.13~
MOVIE NEWS HOT IS SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL PRESS
Hot in the movie world is Sundance Film Festival Press:
Read: HR’s Sundance coverage.
Also check out: Sundance Video Diaries.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 21.1.13~
SUNDANCE – WHERE SCREENWRITERS, NEW CONCEPTS & NEW DIRECTORS SHINE
Naomi Watts, Ashton Kutcher, Reese Witherspoon, Matthew McConaughey and Amanda Seyfried are joining Nicole Kidman and a bevvy of other stars to promote low budget indie films at Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance is the ongoing vision of pioneer mega-producer Robert Redford and his team. This year a focus on the indie film festival is the same as any other year of the festival. That being: “what is a movie star?” A movie star [on screen] is really someone who has the ability to make real human stories come to life while playing decent roles. Sundance always achieves that each year. (more…)
WGA HONORS TOM STOPPARD’S MASTERFUL HEART IN THE ACT OF IMAGINATION
In 1997 playwright Tom Stoppard was given a Knighthood for amazing writing. On the 17th February, the Writers Guild of America plan on giving Tom the Laurel Award for Screen.
WGA’s statement said: “Whether adapting the masters or crafting his own tales, Stoppard brings dignity and coherence to the act of imagination… with wit, elegance and heart to all he composes.”
My favorite work of Tom’s is probably Arcadia. Its simplicity so elegant.–Variety. Photo: Orion Magazine.
~Posted by Horiwoodbog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 17.1.13~
PROBLEM SOLVING TICKLISH – BILL RALSTON’S CREATIVE WRITING TUTORIALS
A toga party and a surfeit of savvy make for a ticklish problem.
–Bill Ralston writes up the selfishness of our indvidual consumer society in a land of plenty.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.1.13~
LOVE IN MY LIFE – SIR PAUL HOLMES WRITING POST OPEN-HEART SURGERY
“I couldn’t speak … Not with the half-inch pipe down my throat. I couldn’t sleep. Not for days. The staff urged me to try. But when I closed my eyes I saw only nightmare visions. It was unbearable. I was exhausted,” he recounted.
“I’ve written this not to suggest I’m the only person who’s ever had open heart surgery. Not at all. Please don’t think that. But I’ve written it in good health, full of beans again, looking out on a golden spring day, the cold wind has gone and there is so much love in my life. What more could a man want?”
–Sir Paul Holmes letter, the morning after open heart surgery, June 2012.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 9.1.12~
EMOTIVE MOVING ON INSTINCT
I had a fondness for telling other people’s stories, extracting the truth of their experience into a digestible nugget that could inform, inspire, or benefit someone else. Still, I was uncertain about what to say or how to say it. The truth is, I was just moving on instinct. You realize that though the canvas of your life is painted with daily experiences, behaviors, reactions, and emotions… you are the artist of your own life — and can use as many colors and textures as possible (and erase when necessary!)… now, that’s a revelation… so emote… paint well.
–Oprah Winfrey is editor of O Magazine.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 8.1.13~
IOWA – SEAMUS HEANEY POETIC ‘CAMERA-EYE’ EXPERIENCES
Intro: The poet’s acute observation and clarity of memory
resurrect selected events from the past in fascinating detail
even after time-lapse…
Iowa: a poem by Seamus Heaney
In Iowa once, among the Mennonites In a slathering blizzard, conveyed all afternoon Through sleet-glit pelting hard against the windscreen And a wiper's strong absolving slumps and flits, I saw, abandoned in the open gap Of a field where wilted corn stalks flagged the snow, A mowing machine. Snow brimmed its iron seat, Heaped each spoked wheel with a thick white brow, And took the shine off oil in the black-toothed gears. Verily I came forth from that wilderness As one unbaptized who had known darkness (more…)
I’M THE BEAST. YOU’RE THE BEAUTY – MARGARET MAHY’S WORDS
“I’m the Beast. You’re the Beauty,” he said. “It’s all a story, isn’t it?”… “What’s happened to the world? she was thinking. Everything has turned terrible…and the bits that aren’t terrible have gone mad. I don’t understand anything anymore.”… “Will you still love me when I’m a monster?”… Maddigan’s Fantasia.
“For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn’t want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.”… The Catalogue of the Universe.
“It’s so dark – as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.”… The Wilful Eye.
“Somewhere in the flesh of the earth the dreadful earthquake shuddered, the tide walked to and fro on the leash of the moon, rainbows formed, winds swept the sky like giant brooms piling up clouds before them, clouds which writhed into different shapes, melted into rain (more…)
SALT – SELINA TUSITALA-MARSH POETICS
beautiful is: Salt
as if God spilt salt on his midnight tablecloth as if Gibran’s Ugly had flung Beauty’s cloak across the waters - its soft light muted in repentence as if star by blue star (more…)
HARVARD BOOKSTORE TYPEWRITER TEE CLUB & A READING LIST OF GOOD BOOKS 2013
Book Recommends: 8000 new books were published in 2012. Suzie Wyndham gives her selections. Here’s a few:
1. Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel the second volume follow up to Wolf Hall that both won the Booker Prize. Think deeply human Brit styled human characters.
2. The Lighthouse - Alison Moore.
3. Ian McEwan‘s Cold War thriller, Sweet Tooth.
4. Richard Ford‘s slow-burning family drama - Canada with its much-quoted opening line: “First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.”
5. Alice Munro‘s Dear Life.
6. Cate Kennedy – Like a House on Fire.
7. Michelle de Kretser‘s Questions of Travel
8. Mateship with Birds - Carrie Tiffany.
9. Deborah Robertson‘s Sweet Old World.
10. The One-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson.
To really geek out this summer with good books at the beach: Read on.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 28.12.12~
PRAIRE OATS TRAIL
Dodging bullets they would learn how to dance well, in days before we knew how to plain conserve gasoline.
–John Smith, The Praire Oats Trail.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific.
BETWEEN TWO DEEP BREATHS…
“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 23.12.12~
YOU CAN ONLY LISTEN AS WELL AS YOU HEAR
Crumpled bits of paper Filled with imperfect thoughts We all talk a different language Talkin' in defense We only sacrifice the future (more…)
AUTHOR GREG McGEE WINS A BOOK PRIZE 2012
Quote of the day: “Jesus, I’m too old for this.”
When I went to college (university) and studied, during creative writing class all of the tutors used to talk about The Katherine Mansfield Literary Award. Their eyes would light up, like… like… all of the people sitting at the table at the Oscars Awards show in Hollywood, when the nominees names were read out… before the winner took to the stage and made Oscars magic for a billion+ people watching the show.
Everyone would clutch their chests or put a hand to a square jaw thoughtfully and imagine they’d be one of the nominees the next year as each award was read out. As I wasn’t an actor, the organisers insisted that foreign press were to sit with actors at tables, I thought they were all really cute caught up in the zenith of emotions the way they were. They were the ideal audience. Famous, talented, studio pets, almost Oscar worthy, so close to it, the toast of Hollywood. Their dream right there. I was not the ideal audience. After all, with my foreign press ticket, I was even lucky to go and see the Oscars and report on them. To even be there was like winning the journalist Oscars for someone from NZ. Though I never really thought I was a journalist either. Yet my visa said I was. So… when the awards were announced, the moment was surreal to witness, like a Katherine Mansfield award in NZ is for people who claim to be proper writers.
Some, work their entire lives to write and win a KMA. This year’s winner, doesn’t sound like they did. What a hoot! :)
Anyway, this year’s winner of the Katherine Mansfield Award is Greg McGee, 62.
He’s off to France he reckons to write up a storm.
His latest book The Open Side co-written with Richie McCaw has smashed records of a book sold in New Zealand (6o,ooo first print run sold out) and with Christmas shopping to get done for most Kiwi families, it’s a winner. I am reading the book in summer.
Congratulations. (more…)
PIANO LIGHT – BROOKE FRASER POETRY
Poignant song lyrics of New Zealand as penned by poetic-prophet: Brooke Fraser in the song Arithmetic.
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