Showing posts with label A Clearer View of the Hinterland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A Clearer View of the Hinterland. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Pictures from a Booklaunch



The venue [JR]

Joint Launch of

The Longest Drink in Town
By Tracey Slaughter
(Auckland: Pania Press, 2015)

&


A Clearer View of the Hinterland:
Poems & Sequences 1981-2014
By Jack Ross
(Wellington: HeadworX, 2014)

Monday 25th May at 6.30 pm

At the Art Fusion Gallery
Waikato University
003 Student Centre (Next to the hairstylists)
Gate 5, Hillcrest Road, Hamilton


Photographs by Paul Hinton [PH], Bronwyn Lloyd [BL] & Jack Ross [JR]




Reflections [JR]




Jack, Tracey & Mark Houlahan [PH]




Mark Houlahan MCs [BL]




Tracey speaks [PH]




Tracey reads [PH]




Jack reads [PH]




The Band [JR]




Tracey, Jack & Rachael Elliott [BL]




Mark Houlahan & Terry Locke [BL]




Crowd scene [BL]




Crowd Scene [PH]


Monday, May 18, 2015

Double Booklaunch - Tracey Slaughter / Jack Ross



Booklaunch - Waikato University (25/5/15)


I'm pleased to report that there's going to be a double booklaunch for Tracey Slaughter's latest, the novella The Longest Drink in Town, published by Pania Press, together with my latest, the poetry collection A Clearer View of the Hinterland, publlished by HeadworX of Wellington.

Here are the details of the event:


Joint Launch of



Cover image: Bronwyn Lloyd / Cover design: Ellen Portch & Brett Cross

The Longest Drink in Town
By Tracey Slaughter
(Auckland: Pania Press, 2015)

&



Cover image: Graham Fletcher / Cover design: Ellen Portch & Brett Cross

A Clearer View of the Hinterland:
Poems & Sequences 1981-2014
By Jack Ross
(Wellington: HeadworX, 2014)

Monday 25th May at 6.30 pm

At the Art Fusion Gallery
Waikato University
003 Student Centre (Next to the hairstylists)
Gate 5, Hillcrest Road, Hamilton


The event is co-organised by Mayhem literary journal. You can find further details here.


Jack Ross


See you there!




Wednesday, October 01, 2014

A Clearer View of the Hinterland



Well, some of you may have noticed the following announcement on Beattie's Book Blog yesterday:

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

New poetry release by Jack Ross, Auckland

A Clearer View of the Hinterland: 

Poems & Sequences 1981-2014

Author: Jack Ross

ISBN: 978-0-473-29640-7
Price: $30.00
Extent: 192 pages
Format: paperback
Publisher: HeadworX
Cover image: Painting by Graham Fletcher


A Clearer View of the Hinterland

The first of the 33 poems and sequences reprinted here was written in 1981, the latest in 2014 – a time-lapse of thirty-three years. As Paula Green put it in 99 Ways into NZ Poetry: “Jack Ross writes poetry like an inquisitive magpie, a scholar, a linguist and a hot-air balloonist … The end result, in contrast to some experimental work, promotes heart as much as it does cerebral talk.”

A Clearer View of the Hinterland is Jack Ross’s fifth full-length poetry collection, and his most substantial to date. It reprints four complete poetry chapbooks, as well as including extracts from numerous others. The poems on offer here include love lyrics, experimental texts, and translations from a variety of languages.


Critical comments:

Thought-provoking and challenging, a tantalizing maze, clashing ideas and images, mixing old and new forms, with wit, candour and self-mockery. – Harvey McQueen, JAAM

It’s hard to imagine a writer better equipped to give context through paratext than Ross, for whom form and format are always expressive. – Jen Crawford, brief


About the Author:

Jack Ross’s publications include four full-length collections of poetry, three novels, and three volumes of short fiction. He has also edited numerous books and literary magazines, including – with Jan Kemp – the trilogy of audio / text anthologies Classic, Contemporary and New NZ Poets in Performance (AUP, 2006-8).


If you'd like to know more about the book, I can hardly do better than point you towards Mark Pirie's HeadworX website, where there are a couple of sample poems, as well as a link to the online annotations for the collection (it seemed better than loading up the book itself with a lot of fairly specialised source details).

More to the point, you could order a copy right now from Mark Pirie's site (should you wish to). If you'd prefer to wait and have a look through it first, we're planning a launch sometime in late November / early December, together with Tracey Slaughter's novella The Longest Drink in Town, which is being published by Pania Press.

And in the meantime, here's a clearer view of that cover image of Graham Fletcher's:



cover image: Graham Fletcher / cover design: Ellen Portch & Brett Cross